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080 _a03.02.05 S431
100 _aScott, Wolf
245 _aConcepts and measurement of poverty
260 _bUN Research Institute for Social Development
_aGenevaCH
_c1981
300 _aiii, 62 p.
520 _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.
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