On the Watts Multidimensional Poverty Index and its Decomposition

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1067-1077

  Chakravarty, Satya R ^a   Deutsch, Joseph ^b   Silber, Jacques ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

decomposition; multidimensional poverty; Watts index

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INDEX METHOD; LIFE EXPECTANCY; POVERTY DETERMINANT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

EID: 43249088468     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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