Poverty in an International Perspective: A Reexamination

Orit Kristal and Leah Achdut

No 95, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: Poverty rankings of LIS countries given by traditional Head Count and Poverty Gap measures are compared to the rankings found using Sen (1976), Kakwani (1980), and Foster et al. (1984). It is found that the latter measures lead to more consistent rankings.

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Date: 1993-03
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Published in Journal of Income Distribution 5, no. 1 (1995): 47-64.

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