Global poverty: National accounts based versus survey based estimates

Development and Change

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 683-712

  Karshenas, Massoud ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; ESTIMATION METHOD; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

EID: 0141675106     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00324     Document Type: Article

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