On Multidimensional Indices of Poverty
The contribution of recent "multidimensional indices of poverty" may not be as obvious as one thinks. There are two issues in assessing that contribution: whether one believes that a single index can ever be a sufficient statistic of poverty, and whether one aggregates in the space of &quo...
| Main Author: | Ravallion, Martin |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | EN |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4875 |
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