Tracking poverty over time in the absence of comparable consumption data

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 317-341

  Stifel, David ^a   Christiaensen, Luc ^b  

^a LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; HEALTH SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; POVERTY DETERMINANT;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34547864588     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: 1564698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhm010     Document Type: Article

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