More Relatively-Poor People in a Less Absolutely-Poor World

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-28

  Chen, Shaohua ^a   Ravallion, Martin ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute poverty; Global poverty; Inequality; Relative poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873254735     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2012.00520.x     Document Type: Article

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