@article{Quiggin:151524,
      recid = {151524},
      author = {Quiggin, John and Mahadevan, Renuka},
      title = {The Poverty Burden: A Measure of the Difficulty of Ending  Extreme Poverty},
      address = {2010-03-30},
      number = {1744-2016-140876},
      series = {Australian Public Policy Program},
      pages = {22},
      month = {Mar},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {In this paper, we consider an extension of the commonly  used poverty gap measure that may be used to address the  question of whether the elimination of poverty is a  feasible objective, given sufficient political commitment.  The resources potentially available to address poverty may  be measured by the total amount by which the incomes of the  non-poor exceed the same poverty line. The ratio of the  poverty gap to the resources potentially available is equal  to the proportional tax rate on incomes in excess of the  poverty line that would be required to fund a transfer  sufficient to raise the incomes of all poor people to the  poverty line. We refer to this ratio as the ‘poverty  burden’ (PB). We provide a formal definition of the poverty  burden and an analysis of its properties as a poverty  measure.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151524},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.151524},
}