How to Decompose Sen-Shorrocks-Thon Poverty Index: A Practitioner’s Guide

Authors

  • Kuan Xu
  • Lars Osberg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1874-6322.1282

Abstract

The Sen-Shorrocks-Thon index of poverty intensity is a useful measure of poverty intensity, but the link between the index and its decompositions is not necessarily transparent. This guide documents our experience using the index and is written to assist other policy analysts to compute and understand this index and its decomposition with simple mathematics, numerical examples and geometrical figures.

Published

2001-06-06

How to Cite

Xu, K., & Osberg, L. (2001). How to Decompose Sen-Shorrocks-Thon Poverty Index: A Practitioner’s Guide. Journal of Income Distribution®, 10(1-2). https://doi.org/10.25071/1874-6322.1282