About this title: Poverty alleviation is a central aim of economic and social policy, and yet there is no consensus about what poverty means or how it is best measured. Often, the households below an income poverty line are counted as poor, but there may be no firm basis for concentrating on that particular income level. There may also be wide variations among the households below any income poverty line in terms of their actual living standards. This book explores what poverty means in developed countries, and shows that understanding and measuring it requires widening the focus beyond curent income. By using ...
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780198287858ISBN:0198287852
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 234x156 mm. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (272) the core issue of this book is how to define and measure poverty in relatively rich countries in a way which is valid, meaningful in the context, and valuable for policy-making. the authors concentrate on the identification of the poor, rather than the subsequent aggregation of the statistics to derive an overall index of poverty-which is the focus of most recent literature. they show that ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780198287858ISBN:0198287852
Description: New. The core issue of this book is how to define and measure poverty in relatively rich countries in a way which is valid, meaningful in the context, and valuable for policy-making. The authors concentrate on the identification of the poor, rather than t... read more
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