Can a Poverty Index be Both Relative and Absolute?

DOI10.2307/2951756MaRDI QIDQ4319570zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Buhong Zheng

Publication date 11 January 1995

Published in Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2951756

zbMATH Keywords

income inequalitypoverty indexpoverty measurementscale invariancetranslation invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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