If the distribution of income in a country is (100,120,140,155) and the poverty line is 150, then poverty as denoted by the headcount ratio___________ compared to the poverty gap measure.
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JNU SIS 2021 Question 73: Poverty, inequality and human development
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This question is on The poverty gap and the FGT indices, part of Poverty, inequality and human development in Economics of Growth and Development.
Measures of how poor the poor are, not just how many.
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