Variable Populations and the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality

Sreenivasan Subramanian

No wp-2012-053, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The present paper is a selective overview, very considerably based on work in which the author himself has been involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of differing size.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Population; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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