Monitoring absolute and relative poverty: "Not enough" is not the same as "much less"

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 247-269

  Notten, Geranda ^a   De Neubourg, Chris ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Innocenti Research Centre   (Italy)

Author keywords

Absolute poverty; European Union; Official poverty; Relative poverty; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955760470     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2011.00443.x     Document Type: Article

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