Chronic poverty and all that

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 acros...

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Main Authors: Calvo, C, Dercon, S
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: 2007
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