How to compare apples and oranges: Poverty measurement based on different definitions of consumption

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-42

  Lanjouw, Jean Olson ^a   Lanjouw, Peter ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0035625362     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4991.00002     Document Type: Article

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