00608nam a2200109Ia 4500080001800000100001600018245004000034260006500074300001500139520032500154583001900479  a03.02.05 S431  aScott, Wolf  aConcepts and measurement of poverty  bUN Research Institute for Social DevelopmentaGenevaCHc1981  aiii, 62 p.  aPresents 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.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR