Normalized Poverty Gap (NPG) is measured as a ratio of:
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UGC-NET 2023 Question 32: 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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