Defining poverty lines as a fraction of central tendency

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 720-729

  Muller, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

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EID: 33644526977     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20111843     Document Type: Article

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