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Risk-adjusted Poverty in Argentina

Measurement and Determinants

  • Author: UN, ECLAC
  • Publication date: January 2007
  • Page count: 40
  • Language(s) in this book: English
  • Sales number: 06.II.G.118

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This paper presents a methodology for adjusting measures of income and poverty for the risk faced by a household. The approach draws on the standard economic concept of risk aversion, and it is based on the intuition that households will prefer a steady stream of income to a variable on with the same mean.