Poverty Under the Kuznets Process

The behavior of poverty indexes is analyzed in the context of models of development proposed by Kuznets (1955) and Todaro (1969). It is found that under the Kuznets process, the class of poverty indexes developed by Foster et al. (1984) will always either increase or decrease with development. Howev...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Economic journal (London) 1985-01, Vol.95, p.42-50
Hauptverfasser:	Anand, Sudhir, Kanbur, S. M. R.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Economic models Economic theory Income distribution Income inequality Indexes Mathematical analysis Modeling Population distributions Poverty Poverty line Ratios Rural populations Rural urban migration Urban populations Wages
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