On measuring deprivation and living standards of societies in a multi-attribute framework

Oxford Economic Papers

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-56

  Pattanaik, Prasanta K ^a   Reddy, Sanjay G ^b   Xu, Yongsheng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; LIVING STANDARD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84555189121     PISSN: 00307653     EISSN: 14643812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpr034     Document Type: Article

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