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 # PovertyAndInequalityMeasures
 
+# Poverty and Inequality
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+This generates various measures poverty and inequality from a sample dataset.
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+The measures are mostly taken from chs. 4-6 of the World Banks' [Handbook on Poverty and Inequality](http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/488081468157174849/Handbook-on-poverty-and-inequality).
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