Poverty orderings and indexes: An application for Mexico

Abstract

This paper uses Atkinson's and Fosterand Shorrocks's approach to generate poverty orderings for different population groups in Mexico. The poverty is measured using a range of poverty lines valued from zero to an arbitrary maximum. Poverty is estimated using three poverty measures: the head-count ratio, the normalized poverty gap, and the Foster et al. P 3 index. For the comparisons undertaken here the head-count ratio yields an unambiguous ordering.