Poverty, relative to the ability to eradicate it: an index of poverty reduction failure

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2007.02.021MaRDI QIDQ1934148zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ravi Kanbur, Diganta Mukherjee

Publication date 28 January 2013

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/126998

zbMATH Keywords

absolute povertypoverty reduction failurerelative poverty

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14)

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