Should poverty and inequality measures be combined?

Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 67-74

  Fields, Gary S ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Deprivation index; Inequality measure; Poverty index; Poverty line; Poverty measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049266677     PISSN: 2364107X     EISSN: 23641088     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-29748-0_5     Document Type: Chapter

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