Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lemmi, Achille (Editor), Betti, Gianni (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being ; 3
• Subjects: Probabilities.; Economic theory.; Social sciences.; Sociology.; Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Sociology, general.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

Recent theoretical and empirical studies have concluded that in order to be accurate, poverty and deprivation must be measured within a multidimensional framework that is consistent, efficient, and statistically robust. The fuzzy set approach to poverty measurement was developed in the early 1990s a...