Artikel
The challenge of measuring poverty and inequality: a comparative analysis of the main indicators
This paper presents a review of the main available indicators to measure poverty and income inequality, examining their properties and suitability for different types of economic analyses, and providing real-world data to illustrate how they work. Although some of these metrics -such as the Gini coefficient- are most frequently used for this purpose, it is crucially important for researchers and policy-makers to take into account alternative methods that can offer complementary information in order to better understand these issues at all levels.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) ; ISSN: 2254-7088 ; Volume: 7 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 24-43 ; A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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income inequality
indicators
inequality metrics
poverty metrics
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Martín-Legendre, Juan Ignacio
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Veröffentlichung
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Universidade da Coruña
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A Coruña
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2018
- DOI
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doi:10.17979/ejge.2018.7.1.4331
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- Martín-Legendre, Juan Ignacio
- Universidade da Coruña
Time of origin
- 2018
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