Vulnerability to individual and aggregate poverty

Social Choice and Welfare

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 721-740

  Calvo, Cesar ^a   Dercon, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE PIURA   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84884418416     PISSN: 01761714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00355-012-0706-y     Document Type: Article

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