Growth-equity decomposition of a change in poverty: An axiomatic approach

Economics Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 417-423

  Tsui, Kai Yuen ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Functional equations; Inequality; Poverty gap measure; Poverty measures; Watts poverty measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030306168     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1765(95)00771-7     Document Type: Article

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