| Article ID: | iaor20062499 |
| Country: | Spain |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 37 |
| End Page Number: | 55 |
| Publication Date: | May 2006 |
| Journal: | Fuzzy Economic Review |
| Authors: | Caramuta Diego M., Contiggiani Federico |
| Keywords: | economics, fuzzy sets |
This paper postulates two poverty indices based on a fuzzyfication of the poverty line approach and shows that they satisfy some of the usual axioms in the poverty line literature. It also shows that the headcount ratio is a particular case of a poverty measure based on fuzzy sets. Finally this paper postulates that fuzzy version of poverty measures will not satisfy the transfer axiom.