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UNU-WIDER Economic Well-being and Non-economic Well-being: A Review of the Meaning and Measurement of Poverty

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Economic Well-being and Non-economic Well-being: A Review of the Meaning and Measurement of Poverty

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Publisher:
UNU-WIDER
Series:
WIDER Research Paper
Volume:
2004/30
Title:
Economic Well-being and Non-economic Well-being: A Review of the Meaning and Measurement of Poverty
Authors:
Andrew Sumner
Publication date:
2004
ISSN Web:
1810-2611
Copyright holder:
© Author(s)
Copyright year:
2004
Keywords:
data, statistics, poverty, well-being
JEL:
I30, I31, I32
Sponsor:
UNU-WIDER acknowledges the financial contributions to the research programme by the governments of Denmark (Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Finland (Ministry for Foreign Affairs), Norway (Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Sweden (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency-Sida) and the United Kingdom (Department for International Development).
Format:
online
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