What principles should inform poverty indices? Insights from a cross-country survey

Empirical Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 387-420

  Esposito, Lucio ^a   Majorano, Francesca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b United Nations World Food Program   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Distributional judgements; Poverty measurement; Questionnaire study

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY DETERMINANT; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; STUDENT;

EID: 80052388153     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-010-0370-y     Document Type: Article

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