Publication

Mar 2008

This paper proposes a new statistic methodology: income per natural - the mean annual income of persons born in a given country, regardless of where that person now resides. The authors argue that interpreting income per capita to indicate material welfare is unsatisfactory and attempt to explain the difference between their results and common statistical approaches.

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Author Michael Clemens, Lant Pritchett
Series CGD Working Papers
Issue 143
Publisher Center for Global Development (CGD)
Copyright © 2008 Center for Global Development (CGD)
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