* Acknowledgement: This is a slightly revised version of a paper to be published later this year in Sociéties Contemporaines and thus primarily written for a French audience. We acknowledge the support of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Office for National Statistics and the University of Essex. This work has been made possible by ESRC Grant H501 26 5031 and is part of t...

* Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Málaga, Spain. Email: [email protected] ° Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel, and Senior Research Fellow, CEPS/INSTEAD, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. Email: [email protected] This study has been prepared within the OPHI theme on multidimensionak poverty measurement. OPHI gratefully acknowledg...

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