Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement

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Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement

Author(s): Amartya Sen

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Econometrica, Vol. 44, No. 2, (Mar., 1976), pp. 219-231

Published by: The Econometric Society

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Document Outline

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• Issue Table of Contents
  • Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, Vol. 44, No. 2, Mar., 1976
    • Front Matter
    • Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement [pp.  219 - 231]
    • Collective Choice Correspondences as Admissible Outcomes of Social Bargaining Processes [pp.  233 - 240]
    • A Problem on Rankings by Committees [pp.  241 - 246]
    • Fisher's Tests Revisited [pp.  247 - 256]
    • An Approximate Divisia Index of Total Factor Productivity [pp.  257 - 263]
    • Theoremes d'Existence et d'Equivalence pour des Economies avec Production [pp.  265 - 281]
    • Existence d'un Equilibre General de Concurrence Imparfaite: Une Introduction [pp.  283 - 294]
    • Analysis of Models for Commercial Fishing: Mathematical and Economical Aspects [pp.  295 - 303]
    • The Stochastic Dependence of Security Price Changes and Transaction Volumes: Implications for the Mixture-of-Distributions Hypothesis [pp.  305 - 321]
    • On the Properties of Linear Decision Rules and Their Derivation by an Iterative Procedure [pp.  323 - 336]
    • Discriminating among Linear Models with Interdependent Disturbances [pp.  337 - 343]
    • Weak Priors and Sharp Posteriors in Simultaneous Equation Models [pp.  345 - 351]
    • The Variances of Regression Coefficient Estimates Using Aggregate Data [pp.  353 - 363]
    • Optimal Critical Values for Pre-Testing in Regression [pp.  365 - 375]
    • Notes and Comments
      • Demand and Supply Functions for Money: Another Look at Theory and Measurement [pp.  377 - 385]
      • Demand and Supply Functions for Money: A Comment [pp.  387 - 389]
      • The Distributional Implications of Public Goods [pp.  391 - 399]
      • Reply to Geoffrey Brennan, "The Distributional Implications of Public Goods" [pp.  401 - 404]
      • Public Goods and Income Distribution: A Rejoinder to the Aaron-McGuire Reply [pp.  405 - 407]
      • A Proof that Both the Bias and the Mean Square Error of the Two-Stage Least Squares Estimator are Monotonically Non-Increasing Functions of Sample Size [pp.  409 - 411]
    • North American Summer Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, June 23-26, 1976 [p.  413]
    • 1975 Election Results [p.  413]
    • Pagination Error [p.  413]
    • Accepted Manuscripts [pp.  413 - 414]
    • Election of Fellows, 1975 [pp.  415 - 419]
    • Erratum
      • Risk Aversion in the Small and in the Large [p.  420]
    • Back Matter