Browsing by Subject "Chronic Poverty"

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    • A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures 
      Foster, James E. (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      This paper presents a new family of chronic poverty measures based on the Pa poverty measures of Foster, Greer,and Thorbecke (1984). The chronically poor are identified using two cutoffs: a standard poverty line, which ...
    • The Use of Multidimensional Poverty to Proxy Chronic Poverty: An Application to Brazil 
      Solomon, Jordan Sylvan (2012-12-13)
      Department: Economics
      When implementing social programs, governments are seeking ways of targeting individuals who are chronically deprived. Most developing countries lack panel data required to identify the chronically poor with standard chronic ...