On measuring vulnerability to poverty

Social Choice and Welfare

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 743-761

  Dutta, Indranil ^a   Foster, James ^b   Mishra, Ajit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80053115365     PISSN: 01761714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00355-011-0570-1     Document Type: Article

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