Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5062607 | Economics Letters | 2006 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
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.
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Authors
Darryl McLeod,