Measuring chronic poverty

<p>A new class of chronic poverty measures is constructed that builds upon Jalan and Ravallion (1998) but does not require resources in different periods to be perfect substitutes when identifying the chronically poor. We use a general mean to combine the resources of a person into a permanent...

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Main Authors: Foster, J, Santos, M
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) 2012