Premature mortality and poverty measurement

Bulletin of Economic Research

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 339-359

  Kanbur, Ravi ^a   Mukherjee, Diganta ^a,b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b ICFAI Business School   (India)

Author keywords

Characterization; Lifetime income profile; Poverty measure; Premature mortality; Steady state population

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT METHOD; MORTALITY; POVERTY;

EID: 34548765984     PISSN: 03073378     EISSN: 14678586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-3378.2007.00265.x     Document Type: Article

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