Weakly Relative Poverty

Prevailing measures of relative poverty are unchanged when all incomes grow or contract by the same proportion. This property stems from seemingly implausible assumptions about the disutility of relative deprivation and the cost of social inclusion. We propose ‘‘weakly relative’’ lines that rela...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ravallion, Martin, Chen, Shaohua
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21439