How fast did developing country poverty fall during the 1990s? Capabilities-based tests of rival estimates
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Non-nested hypothesis tests are used to rank eight widely used international per capita income and poverty measures with respect to how well they predict changes in capabilities: lower child mortality, higher enrollment rates, better nutrition, etc. National accounts based generally out-perform survey-based growth and poverty estimates in these tests. D 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006