Abstract
There are now a number of poverty measures available in the literatures. Some of the measures are alternative to each other and some claimed to be superior in some sense to many others.
While significant work has been done in developing the alternative measurts, not much attention has been paid to the problem of estimation of these indices. Estimation does not pose very serious problems in the large sample, but when one deals with a small sample, which may typically be the case in reality, situations become quite different. In fact usual estimators become biased for some of the indices. In this paper, alternative estimators for these cases have been proposed. Other properties of the estimators and some other relevant issues have also been examined.
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