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Poverty, Inequality, and Development
Poverty, Inequality, and Development
Poverty, Inequality, and Development
Poverty,
Inequality, and
Development
Headcount Index
TPG
APG
H
– Where H is number of persons
– TPG is total poverty gap
• The measure does not reflect changes in inequality among the poor.
It takes into account severity of inequality among the poor (power can be
greater than 1)