00690nam a2200145Ia 4500 20260716043147.0 03.02.05 S431 Scott, Wolf Concepts and measurement of poverty UN Research Institute for Social Development GenevaCH 1981 iii, 62 p. 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 M S431 41591 41591