Chronic poverty and poverty dynamics: Resolving a paradox in the normative basis for intertemporal poverty measures

There is a paradox in the normative foundations for chronic and intertemporal poverty measurement. Measures that reflect particular aversion to chronicity of poverty cannot also reflect particular aversion to fluctuations in the level of poverty when poverty is intense, yet good arguments are made...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quinn, N
Format: Book section
Published: Emerald Publishing Limited 2017