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International comparisons of poverty intensity: index decomposition and bootstrap inference.

This paper proposes an alternative formulation for the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon (SST) index of poverty intensity that is appropriate for survey data with sampling weights. It also decomposes the SST index into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ratio among the poor, and the overall Gini index of po...

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Publicado en:Journal of Human Resources Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 51 - 82
Autores principales: Osberg, Lars, Xu, Kuan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Wisconsin Press Winter2000
Materias:
Sen, Amartya, 1933-
Statistical bootstrapping
Probability theory
Decomposition method
Index numbers (Economics)
Poverty
Mathematical models
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