Defining Poverty Lines As A Fraction Of Central Tendency
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- Christophe Muller, 2006. "Defining Poverty Lines As a Fraction of Central Tendency," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 72(3), pages 720-729, January.
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Keywords
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty; Income Distribution; Personal Income Distribution;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
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