Working paper
Chronic poverty and all that
- Alternative title:
- The measurement of poverty over time
- Abstract:
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We explore how to measure poverty over time, by focusing on trajectories of poverty rather than poverty at a particular point in time. We consider welfare outcomes over a period in time, consisting of a number of spells. We offer a characterization of desirable properties for measuring poverty across these spells, as well as an explicit discussion of three issues. First, should there be scope for compensation so that a poor spell can be compensated for by a non-poor spell? Second, is there sc...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Not peer reviewed
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- CSAE working paper series
- Place of publication:
- http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/main-wps.html
- Publication date:
- 2007-01-01
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- English
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- 2009-02-10
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- Cesar Calvo & Stefan Dercon
- Copyright date:
- 2007
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