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Empirical Issues in Lifetime Poverty Measurement

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  • Michael Hoy
  • Brennan Scott Thompson
  • Buhong Zheng

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This paper demonstrates the implications of adopting an approach to measuring poverty that takes into account the lifetime experience of individuals rather than simply taking a static or cross-sectional perspective. Our approach follows the theoretical innovations in Hoy and Zheng (2008) which address various aspects of the specific pattern of any poverty spells experienced by an individual as well as a possible retrospective consideration that an individual might have concerning his life experience as a whole.

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  • Michael Hoy & Brennan Scott Thompson & Buhong Zheng, 2010. "Empirical Issues in Lifetime Poverty Measurement," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2010-073, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    Equality and inequality; Poverty measurement; Methodology (Poverty);
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    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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