International Comparisons of Welfare and Poverty: Generalized Lorenz Orderings for Ten Countries

John Bishop (), W. James Smith and John Formby ()

No 45, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: This paper applies generalized Lorenz analysis to income distributions of ten countries using advanced statistical procedures to construct confidence bands around estimates and to generate truncated generalized Lorenz curves to construct a poverty ordering of the countries.

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Date: 1990-02
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Published in Canadian Journal of Economics 26, no. 3 (August 1993): 707-26

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