Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Achille Lemmi is Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Siena. His areas of interest and research include personal income distribution models, poverty and living conditions estimation and analysis, and poverty dynamics. Gianni Betti is Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Siena. His areas of interest and research include poverty and living conditions analysis, equivalence scales, small area estimation and poverty mapping.

• Philosophical Accounts of Vagueness, Fuzzy Poverty Measures and Multidimensionality.- The Mathematical Framework of Fuzzy Logic.- An Axiomatic Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement via Fuzzy Sets.- On the Convergence of Various Unidimensional Approaches.- Capability Approach and Fuzzy Set Theory: Description, Aggregation and Inference Issues.- Multidimensional and Longitudinal Poverty: an Integrated Fuzzy Approach.- French Poverty Measures using Fuzzy Set Approaches.- The “Fuzzy Set” Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Using the Shapley Decomposition to Analyze the Determinants of Poverty in Israel.- Multidimensional Fuzzy Set Approach Poverty Estimates in Romania.- Multidimensional and Fuzzy Poverty in Switzerland.- A Comparison of Poverty According to Primary Goods, Capabilities and Outcomes. Evidence from French School Leavers’ Surveys.- Multidimensional Fuzzy Relative Poverty Dynamic Measures in Poland.- Modelling Fuzzy and Multidimensional Poverty Measures in the United Kingdom with Variance Components Panel Regression.

From the reviews: "The book is a collection written by economists, statisticians, and mathematicians. ... The book comprises 13 chapters together with the editorial introduction. ... As such, they contain a good deal of interesting empirical information. ... The book under review is the kind of book it is and draws on the social science, which it draws on. Of its kind, it is good." (David Byrne, Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 48 (2), 2008)