Concept information
Preferred term
sen index
Definition
- The Sen Index (also S-Index or S-Measure) is a poverty measure that was introduced by the economist Amartya Sen in the 1970s. The measure was novel in two ways. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Sen Index]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/sen_index
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