On a 'level-sensitive' headcount ratio: Revisiting shorrocks' poverty index

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 477-482

  Subramanian, Sreenivasan ^a  

^a MADRAS INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (India)

Author keywords

Deprivation profile; Headcount ratio; Level sensitivity; Shorrocks poverty index

Indexed keywords

POVERTY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

EID: 48449099635     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-007-9215-2     Document Type: Article

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