Indigenous and other Australian poverty: Revisiting the importance of equivalence scales

Economic Record

Volumn 80, Issue 251, 2004, Pages 411-422

  Hunter, Boyd H ^a   Kennedy, Steven ^b   Biddle, Nicholas ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Australian Treasury   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LOW INCOME POPULATION; POVERTY DETERMINANT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11244261173     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2004.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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