【摘要】 贫困应该表现为福利的缺乏,而不仅仅表现为收入或消费的不足。福利是一个多维概念。将贫困视为多维概念,要求在其程度的测度上对每个选中的福利变量均确定其阈值,即贫困表现为一个人有某个福利特征值小于相应的阈值。据此,文章讨论总结了多维贫困程度测度指标的性质,论证了该指标的可分解性,指出了该指标优于人文发展指数等指标的特点。最后,给出了该指标的一种具体表现形式,并利用该形式进行了国家间贫困程度的比较分析。更多还原

【Abstract】 Poverty refers to short of welfare,not only short of income and consumption.Welfare is a multidimensional concept,so poverty is also a multidimensional one.In order to measure poverty we must make sure of the threshold of selected variables of welfare.The poverty means the eigenvalue of welfare is below the relevant threshold.The paper discusses the property and the form of multidimensional poverty index and analyses the poverty degree among nations.更多还原