A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures

Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Foster, James E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth; Duration of poverty; Incidence; Poverty assessment; Poverty measurement; Severity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919660231     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557547.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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