Premature Mortality and Poverty Measurement
Published By: | Published Date: November, 27 , 2006There is a glaring paradox in all commonly used measures of poverty.
The death of a poor person, because of poverty, reduces poverty according
to these measures. This surely violates our basic intuitions of how poverty
measures should behave. It cannot be right in concept that differentially
higher mortality among the poor serves to reduce poverty. This paper begins
the task of developing poverty measures that are not perversely mortality
sensitive. A family of measures is proposed that is an intuitive modification
of standard poverty measures to take into account the fact that the rich live
longer than the poor. Version: October 2006
Author(s): Ravi Kanbur, Diganta Mukherji | Posted on: Nov 27, 2006 | Views(3904) | Download (1048)