Poverty-Adjusted Life Expectancy : A Consistent Index of the Quantity and the Quality of Life

Poverty and mortality are arguably the two major sources of loss of well-being. Most mainstream measures of human development capturing these two dimensions aggregate them in an ad-hoc and controversial way. This paper develops a new index aggregat...

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Main Authors: Baland, Jean-Marie, Cassan, Guilhem, Decerf, Benoit
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099826507292238069/IDU0dcf0c5150431e048e30af2b01041f1ae62d3
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37790

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