On the Welfarist Rationale for Relative Poverty Lines

Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ravallion, Martin ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute poverty; Interdependence; Malawi; Relative deprivation; Relative poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919608758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239115.003.0021     Document Type: Chapter

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