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Poverty Gap

The Poverty Gap is a poverty metric that quantifies the average shortfall of income or consumption levels from the poverty line, expressed as a percentage of the poverty line, thereby reflecting both the incidence and intensity of poverty within a population.

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Poverty Gap Index

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Current Population Reports, P60-235, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007

Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, Jessica Smith · 2008 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Looking Beyond Averages

Martin Ravallion · World Development · 2001 · 1.3K citations

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Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014

Bernadette D. Proctor, Melissa A. Kollar, Jessica L. Semega et al. · 2015 · 1.2K citations

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Measuring Social Welfare With and Without Poverty Lines

Martin Ravallion · American Economic Review · 1994 · 1.1K citations

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Micro-Level Estimation of Poverty and Inequality

Chris Elbers, Jean O. Lanjouw, Peter Lanjouw · Econometrica · 2003 · 945 citations

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    Martin Ravallion

    World Bank, United States

    18 publications · 5.3K citations

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    Timothy M. Smeeding

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    13 publications · 461 citations

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    Andy Sumner

    King's College London, United Kingdom

    10 publications · 561 citations

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    Nanak Kakwani

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    8 publications · 1.7K citations

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    Ravi Kanbur

    Cornell University, United States

    7 publications · 234 citations

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Institutions

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  1. World Bank

    Washington, United States

    32 h-index

    72 publications

    10.2K citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    18 h-index

    35 publications

    3.6K citations

  3. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    17 h-index

    20 publications

    2.2K citations

  4. World Bank Group

    Washington D.C., United States

    14 h-index

    19 publications

    4.4K citations

  5. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    14 h-index

    21 publications

    890 citations

  6. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    13 h-index

    18 publications

    1.2K citations

  7. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    13 h-index

    18 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    13 h-index

    24 publications

    1.4K citations

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  1. World Development

    58 publications · 6.8K citations

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  2. Social Indicators Research

    64 publications · 2.5K citations

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  3. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 79 publications · 2.6K citations

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  4. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 68 publications · 1.7K citations

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  5. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 22 publications · 2.4K citations

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