Weakly relative poverty

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1251-1261

  Ravallion, Martin ^a   Chen, Shaohua ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 84861212904     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00127     Document Type: Article

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