Multidimensional and longitudinal poverty: An integrated fuzzy approach

Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 115-137

  Betti, Gianni ^a   Cheli, Bruno ^a   Lemmi, Achille ^a   Verma, Vijay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fuzzy measure; Income poverty; Lorenz curve; Membership function; Poverty measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 85064893111     PISSN: 2364107X     EISSN: 23641088     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-34251-1_7     Document Type: Chapter

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