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...

Table of Contents:

• Philosophical Accounts of Vagueness, Fuzzy Poverty Measures and Multidimensionality
• The Mathematical Framework of Fuzzy Logic
• An Axiomatic Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement via Fuzzy Sets
• On the Convergence of Various Unidimensional Approaches
• Capability Approach and Fuzzy Set Theory: Description, Aggregation and Inference Issues
• Multidimensional and Longitudinal Poverty: an Integrated Fuzzy Approach
• French Poverty Measures using Fuzzy Set Approaches
• The “Fuzzy Set” Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Using the Shapley Decomposition to Analyze the Determinants of Poverty in Israel
• Multidimensional Fuzzy Set Approach Poverty Estimates in Romania
• Multidimensional and Fuzzy Poverty in Switzerland
• A Comparison of Poverty According to Primary Goods, Capabilities and Outcomes. Evidence from French School Leavers’ Surveys
• Multidimensional Fuzzy Relative Poverty Dynamic Measures in Poland
• Modelling Fuzzy and Multidimensional Poverty Measures in the United Kingdom with Variance Components Panel Regression.