Societal Poverty : A Relative and Relevant Measure
Poverty lines are typically higher in richer countries, and lower in poorer ones, reflecting the relative nature of national assessments of who is considered poor. In many high-income countries, poverty lines are explicitly relative, set as a share...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/133671495562984832/Societal-poverty-a-relative-and-relevant-measure http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26845 |