Browsing Working Papers by Author "Foster, James E."

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    • A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures 
      Foster, James E. (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      This paper presents a new family of chronic poverty measures based on the Pa poverty measures of Foster, Greer,and Thorbecke (1984). The chronically poor are identified using two cutoffs: a standard poverty line, which ...
    • Isolated and Proximate Illiteracy And Why these Concepts Matter in Measuring Literacy and Designing Education Programmes 
      Basu, Kaushik; Foster, James E.; Subramanian, S. (Vanderbilt University, 2000)
      Traditionally, a society's literacy has been measured by the 'literacy rate' or the percent of the adult population that is literate. The present paper maintains that the distribution on literates across households also ...
    • Ranking Investment Projects 
      Foster, James E.; Mitra, Tapan (Vanderbilt University, 2001)
      This paper describes conditions under which one investment project dominates a second project in terms of net present value, irrespective of the choice of the discount rate. The resulting partial ordering of projects has ...