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- Title
Handbook of research on economic and social well‐being.
- Authors
Mulligan, Gordon F.
- Abstract
Here the overriding theme is that poverty is not just a lack of income but a multidimensional construct. While these twin aspects of poverty are correlated there are interesting outliers that deserve attention: in Brazil, for example, relatively few people live in poverty but, when they do, the nature of that poverty is often extreme. The MPI also provides results that differ from those based only on very low I per capita i GDP: developing countries like Angola and Peru have relatively high incomes but they rate poorly on the multidimensional poverty index. Studies focusing on income distribution rank household incomes and then look at the proportion of that income that is earned within some interval (say the middle 60%) or, alternatively, look at certain intervals of household income (relative to the median) and then determine the proportions of households occupying those intervals.
- Subjects
SOCIAL science research; SOCIAL scientists; ECONOMIC research; MATHEMATICAL equivalence; INCOME inequality
- Publication
Regional Science Policy & Practice, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 5, p866
- ISSN
1757-7802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/rsp3.12208