Measuring poverty: Taking a multidimensional perspective

Hacienda Publica Espanola

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 29-73

  Silber, Jacques ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cardinal approach; Multidimensional poverty; Ordinal measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348936682     PISSN: 02101173     EISSN: 11339470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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