00637nam a2200121Ia 450000500170000008000180001710000160003524500400005126000650009130000150015652003250017158300190049620260716043147.0  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