Robust poverty and inequality measurement in Egypt: correcting for spatial-price variation and sample design effects

The paper estimates inequality and absolute poverty in Egypt for 1997 with measures that are robust to sample design effects and corrected for spatial variation in price levels. Standard errors for inequality indices are calculated using a bootstrap approach which replicates the sample design. Stand...

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Autores principales: Jolliffe, Dean, Datt, Gaurav, Sharma, Manohar
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157675

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