Subgroup Consistent Poverty Indices

DOI10.2307/2938224MaRDI QIDQ3974547zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James E. Foster, Anthony Shorrocks

Publication date 25 June 1992

Published in Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2938224

zbMATH Keywords

decomposabilitypoverty indicespoverty measurementseparabilitysubgroup consistency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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