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Concepts and measurement of poverty

By:

Scott, Wolf

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: UN Research Institute for Social Development GenevaCH 1981Description: iii, 62 pAction note:

3/7/00 M2LMGR

Summary: Presents empirical data showing the arbitrary nature of poverty lines and the imprecise and relative nature of the concept itself. Suggests how data on poverty could be improved. Shows that our thinking about poverty and how to measure it has progressed very little, if at all, since the latter part of the 19th century.

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Presents empirical data showing the arbitrary nature of poverty lines and the imprecise and relative nature of the concept itself. Suggests how data on poverty could be improved. Shows that our thinking about poverty and how to measure it has progressed very little, if at all, since the latter part of the 19th century.

3/7/00 M2LMGR

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