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Philosophical Accounts of Vagueness, Fuzzy Poverty Measures and Multidimensionality

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Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

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  1. School of Economics, University of East Anglia, UK

    Mozaffar Qizilbash

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Qizilbash, M. (2006). Philosophical Accounts of Vagueness, Fuzzy Poverty Measures and Multidimensionality. In: Lemmi, A., Betti, G. (eds) Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement. Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34251-1_2

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