Measuring poverty
- Non-income chronic poverty measures have a low correlation with income measures
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This paper explores empirical measurement of chronic non-income poverty. The analysis generates important new insights into the dynamics of well-being outcomes over time, their relationship to incomes, and intra-household and inter-generational dynamics. Results show there are more dynamics in non-income dimensions of poverty than commonly presumed, although non-income poverty is more stable over time than income poverty. The correlation between chronic poverty in the income and non-income dimensions is very low.
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- ( V. Nyhan Jones;M. Woolcock / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester , 2007)
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- ( E. Stuart / European Network on Debt and Development , 2007)
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