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