A consistent poverty approach to assessing the sensitivity of income poverty measures and trends

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 371-388

  Saunders, Peter ^a   Hill, Trish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY DETERMINANT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 58149185290     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: 14678462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2008.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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