The Watts poverty index is the first distribution-sensitive poverty measure, and it was proposed in 1964 by Harold W. Watts (1964). The index is computed by dividing the poverty line by income, taking logs, and taking the sum over the poor.
SAISANA Michaela;
2015-01-20
Springer
JRC92168
978-94-007-0753-5,
http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3197,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC92168,
10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3197,
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