Measuring poverty in Malaysia: Applications of distributive-sensitive poverty indices
This paper represents an attempt to seek a better way to measure poverty in Malaysia. Many studies,including government published figures employ the head-count ratio as the index of poverty. However,this measure is a narrow measure of povety. Specifically, it ignores the distribution of income among...
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Universiti Utara Malaysia
2004
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| Online Access: | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/312/1/A.H.Roslan.pdf |