Some conceptual and statistical issues on measurement of poverty

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-71

  Kumar, T Krishna ^a   Gore, Anil P ^b   Sitaramam, V ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

Author keywords

Consumption deprivation; Functional estimation; Hazard rate; Income distribution; Inequality; Poverty; Reliability theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029687017     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(95)00030-5     Document Type: Article

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