{"paper":{"title":"The General Poverty Index","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"stat.ME","authors_text":"Gane Samb Lo","submitted_at":"2012-08-18T18:04:54Z","abstract_excerpt":"We introduce the General Poverty Index (GPI), which summarizes most of the known and available poverty indices, in the form {equation*} GPI=\\delta (\\frac{A(Q_{n},n,Z)}{nB(Q,n)}\\overset{Q_{n}}{\\underset{j=1}{\\sum}%}w(\\mu_{1}n+\\mu_{2}Q_{n}-\\mu_{3}j+\\mu_{4})d(\\frac{Z-Y_{j,n}}{Z}%)),{equation*} where {equation*} B(Q_{n},n)=\\sum_{j=1}^{Q}w(j), {equation*} $A(\\cdot),$ $w(\\cdot),and$ $d(\\cdot) $\\ are given measurable functions, $Q_{n}$ is the number of the poor in the sample, Z is the poverty line and $Y_{1,n}\\leq Y_{2,n}\\leq ...\\leq Y_{n,n}$\\ are the ordered sampled incomes or expenditures of the in"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1208.3770","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}