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Reckoning Inter-group Poverty Differentials in the Measurement of Aggregate Poverty

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Subramanian, S.
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Keywords: group poverty profile; group Lorenz profile; externality; group affiliation;

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  1. Takayama, Noriyuki, 1979. "Poverty, Income Inequality, and Their Measures: Professor Sen's Axiomatic Approach Reconsidered," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 47(3), pages 747-59, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Glenn C. Loury, 2000. "Social Exclusion and Ethnic Groups: The Challenge to Economics," Boston University - Institute for Economic Development 106, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development.
  3. Basu, Kaushik & Foster, James E., 1998. "On measuring literacy," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1997, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Shorrocks, Anthony F, 1995. "Revisiting the Sen Poverty Index," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 63(5), pages 1225-30, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Thon, Dominique, 1979. "On Measuring Poverty," Review of Income and Wealth, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 25(4), pages 429-39, December.
  6. Amiel, Yoram & Cowell, Frank, 1994. "Monotonicity, dominance and the Pareto principle," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 45(4), pages 447-450, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. Subramanian, S., 2004. "Social Groups and Economic Poverty: A Problem in Measurement," Working Papers UNU-WIDER Research Paper , World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER). [Downloadable!]
  8. Manabi Majumdar & S. Subramanian, 2001. "Capability failure and group disparities: some evidence from India for the 1980s," The Journal of Development Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 37(5), pages 104-140, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  9. Subramanian, S., 2004. "A Re-scaled Version of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Poverty Indices based on an Association with the Minkowski Distance Function," Working Papers UNU-WIDER Research Paper , World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER). [Downloadable!]
  10. S. Subramanian & Manabi Majumdar, 2002. "On measuring deprivation adjusted for group disparities," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 265-280. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  11. Sen, Amartya K, 1976. "Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 44(2), pages 219-31, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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