Poverty and Inclusive Growth in the Light of the Quintile Income Statistic

S. Subramanian ()
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Chapter Chapter 20 in Inequality and Poverty, 2019, pp 73-77 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Given the vexatious nature of the problem of identification in poverty measurement, is there an alternative approach to measuring money-metric poverty that is conceived of as ‘lowness of income’, as such? Such an approach is espoused by the measure that Kaushik Basu calls the ‘quintile income statistic’. This chapter explores the merits of this measure, both as an indicator of income poverty and as a component of a method for assessing the ‘inclusiveness’ of the growth in per capita income.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8185-0_20

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