Decomposition of gini and the generalized entropy inequality measures

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Mussard, Stéphane ^a   Seyte, Françoise ^a   Terraza, Michel ^a  

^a Lameta and University of Montpellier 1   (France)

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