Measuring the poverty lines for urban households in China-an equivalence scale method

China Economic Review

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 239-252

  CHEN, Zhihong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Adult equivalence scales; China; Consumer demand system; Poverty line; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747178071     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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