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Robust standards errors for the Foster-Greef-Thorbecke class of poverty indices.

Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education |
1999

Abstract

Estimates of standard errors for the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke class of poverty indices. Robustness of the derived standards errors to complex sample design.

The default poverty indices are the headcount, poverty-gap, and squared poverty-gap.