Who is Poorer? : Poverty by Age in the Developing World

This note shows that based on headcount poverty rates, at the household level, households with elderly members are roughly equally poor to non-elderly households, though with variation when using more detailed compositions, and the elderly are less...

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Main Authors: Evans, Brooks, Palacios, Robert
Format: Report
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26567326/poorer-poverty-age-developing-world
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24992