Moving from the household to the individual: Multidimensional poverty analysis

World Development

Volumn 59, Issue , 2014, Pages 70-81

  Vijaya, Ramya M ^a   Lahoti, Rahul ^b   Swaminathan, Hema ^b  

^a RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

Author keywords

Assets; Deprivation; India; Intrahousehold; Karnataka; Multidimensional poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894411133     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.029     Document Type: Article

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