Has the world moved forward? A robust multidimensional evaluation

Economics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 266-269

  Decancq, Koen ^a,b   Ooghe, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dimension weights; International inequality; Multidimensional inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950945150     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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