Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/160769 
Year of Publication: 
1993
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 97
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
Uses LIS data to study the sensitivity of cross-national income poverty comparisons to the method in which poverty is measured. Examined are the differences between using absolute and relative poverty comparisons as well as the consequence of lowering the real value of the poverty line to examine extreme poverty.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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