Multidimensional poverty amongwest African children: Testing for robust poverty comparisons

Child Welfare in Developing Countries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 95-122

  Batana, Yélé Maweki ^a   Duclos, Jean Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Bootstrap tests; Empirical likelihood function; Factor analysis; Multidimensional poverty; Stochastic dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876944326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6275-1_4     Document Type: Chapter

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