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August 2002

Experimental poverty measures: accounting for medical expenditures

Kathleen Short, Thesia I. Garner

Alternate methods of measuring medical expenses affect the relative incidence of poverty, the depth of poverty experienced by the poor, and the number of people who are classified in extreme poverty.

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