Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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 and continues to be refined by scholars of economics and sociology who find the traditional "monetary-only" indicators to be inadequate and arbitrary. This volume brings together advanced thinking on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, including the theoretical background, applications to cross-sections using contemporary European examples, and longitudinal aspects of multidimensional fuzzy poverty analysis that pay particular attention to the transitory, or impermanent, conditions that often occur during transitions to market economies. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers and will be a useful text on poverty for advanced students in applied statistics, urban planning, economics, and sociology. Achille Lemmi is Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Siena. His areas of interest and research include personal income distribution models, poverty and living conditions estimation and analysis, and poverty dynamics. Gianni Betti is Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Siena. His areas of interest and research include poverty and living conditions analysis, equivalence scales, small area estimation and poverty mapping.

Poverty --- Fuzzy sets --- Measurement. --- Data processing. --- Sets, Fuzzy --- Fuzzy mathematics --- Set theory --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Quantitative methods in social research --- Social problems --- Economic theory. --- Distribution (Probability theory. --- Social sciences --- Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. --- Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. --- Sociology, general. --- Methodology of the Social Sciences. --- Methodology. --- Distribution functions --- Frequency distribution --- Characteristic functions --- Probabilities --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Economic man --- Economía --- Conjuntos difusos --- Investigación operativa --- Análisis operativo --- Operaciones, Investigación de --- Ingeniería industrial --- Sistemas, Teoría de --- Conjuntos borrosos --- Conjuntos, Teoría de --- Lógica difusa --- Aspectos económicos --- Ciencias económicas --- Doctrinas económicas --- Economía política --- Teoría económica --- Teorías económicas --- Doctrinas --- Teoría --- Teorías --- Probabilities. --- Sociology. --- Social sciences. --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Social theory --- Probability --- Statistical inference --- Combinations --- Mathematics --- Chance --- Least squares --- Mathematical statistics --- Risk