On testing the scale sensitivity of poverty measures

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2015.10.034MaRDI QIDQ1667944zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Ravallion

Publication date 31 August 2018

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.10.034

zbMATH Keywords

scalespovertydemographicswelfare measurement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical geography and demography (91D20) Welfare economics (91B15)

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