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decomposable poverty measures  

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  • A POVERTY MEASURE is said to be decomposable if the poverty measure of a group is a weighted average of the poverty measures of the individuals in the group. An important property of decomposable poverty measures is that a ceteris paribus reduction in the poverty measure of a subgroup always decreases poverty of the population as a whole. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Decomposable Poverty Measures]

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