Poverty in Tunisia: A Fuzzy Measurement Approach

Artikel

Although poverty is widely recognised as a multidimensional phenomenon, we still believe that monetary aspect has a fundamental role and therefore deserves a special treatment. For this reason we propose an individual unidimensional measure according to a fuzzy approach that, unlike conventional methods, is consistent with the vague nature of poverty and preserves all the available statistical information. Referred to the overall population, we use an Information Theory approach to design unidimensional fuzzy collective index. The methodology proposed here is illustrated by means of the Tunisia case.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics ; ISSN: 2235-6282 ; Volume: 146 ; Year: 2010 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 431-450 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Other Economic Systems: Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
• Subject: fuzzy sets ; poverty ; poverty line ; membership function ; information function

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Belhadj, Besma ; Matoussi, Mohamed Salah
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2010

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1007/BF03399322
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/185956
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET