Who is poorest? An asset-based analysis of multidimensional wellbeing

Development Policy Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-59

  Wietzke, Frank Borge ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asset index; Madagascar; Poverty; Spatial inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914126885     PISSN: 09506764     EISSN: 14677679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12091     Document Type: Article

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