From Rags to Riches: Assessing poverty and vulnerability in urban Nepal.

Urbanisation brings with it rapid socio-economic change with volatile livelihoods and unstable ownership of assets. Yet, current measures of wealth are based predominantly on static livelihoods found in rural areas. We sought to assess the extent to which seven common measures of wealth appropriatel...

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Main Authors: Tim Ensor, Radheshyam Bhattarai, Shraddha Manandhar, Ak Narayan Poudel, Rajeev Dhungel, Sushil Baral, Joseph P Hicks, Dana Thomson, Helen Elsey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226646