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On a ‘Level-Sensitive’ Headcount Ratio: Revisiting Shorrocks’ Poverty Index

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  • Sreenivasan Subramanian, 2008. "On a ‘Level-Sensitive’ Headcount Ratio: Revisiting Shorrocks’ Poverty Index," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 88(3), pages 477-482, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:soinre:v:88:y:2008:i:3:p:477-482
    DOI: 10.1007/s11205-007-9215-2
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    4. Sen, Amartya, 1973. "On Economic Inequality," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198281931.
    5. Jenkins, Stephen P & Lambert, Peter J, 1997. "Three 'I's of Poverty Curves, with an Analysis of UK Poverty Trends," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 49(3), pages 317-327, July.
    6. Shorrocks, Anthony F, 1995. "Revisiting the Sen Poverty Index," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 63(5), pages 1225-1230, September.
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