Measuring poverty

The most commonly used measure is the ‘headcount’ ratio - simply the total number of poor households or individuals expressed as a ratio of the number of all households or individuals. This measures the incidence of poverty. But in the quarter of a century after Sen’s (1976) groundbreaking work on p...

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Main Author: David, Demery
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2005
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Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/237/1/MEASURING_POVERTY.pdf
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