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2005
The Scottish Parliament opened in 1999. Since this devolution of powers, there has been an increase in the demand for empirically-based, policy relevant, comparative research to help design policies and determine their impact. Changing Scotland uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey to improve our knowledge and understanding of ...
Gayle, V., Jack, G., Wright, R.E.
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The Scottish Parliament opened in 1999. Since this devolution of powers, there has been an increase in the demand for empirically-based, policy relevant, comparative research to help design policies and determine their impact. Changing Scotland uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey to improve our knowledge and understanding of ...
Gayle, V., Jack, G., Wright, R.E.
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Social Service Review, 1978
This is a comment on an apparent contradiction in conclusions reached in two articles in the September 1977 issue of Social Service Review. In her discussion in "The Level of the Poverty Line: A Historical Survey," Diana Karter Appelbaum concludes "that the poverty standard has not only risen as the American standard of living has risen, but that it ...
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This is a comment on an apparent contradiction in conclusions reached in two articles in the September 1977 issue of Social Service Review. In her discussion in "The Level of the Poverty Line: A Historical Survey," Diana Karter Appelbaum concludes "that the poverty standard has not only risen as the American standard of living has risen, but that it ...
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2019
The first part of this chapter distinguishes between three dimensions of justice, which can be used to measure the injustice of absolute poverty: recognition, distribution of resources and access to rights. In the second part the author argues that absolute poverty undermines all three dimensions of justice and does so to a larger degree than other ...
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The first part of this chapter distinguishes between three dimensions of justice, which can be used to measure the injustice of absolute poverty: recognition, distribution of resources and access to rights. In the second part the author argues that absolute poverty undermines all three dimensions of justice and does so to a larger degree than other ...
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Poverty Comparisons with Endogenous Absolute Poverty Lines
2006The objective of measuring poverty is usually to make comparisons over time or between two or more groups. Comm on statistical inference methods are used to determine whether an apparent difference in measured poverty is statistically significant. Studies of relative poverty have long recognized that when the poverty line is calculated from sample ...
Simler, Kenneth R., Arndt, Channing
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2018
“Poverty” has been defined as the inability of an individual or a family to command sufficient resources to satisfy basic needs. The workman who, in Adam Smith’s day, could not appear in public wearing a proper linen shirt, was ipso facto poor, not only to Smith but to Amartya Sen who, commenting on Smith’s observation, wrote: “On the space of the ...
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“Poverty” has been defined as the inability of an individual or a family to command sufficient resources to satisfy basic needs. The workman who, in Adam Smith’s day, could not appear in public wearing a proper linen shirt, was ipso facto poor, not only to Smith but to Amartya Sen who, commenting on Smith’s observation, wrote: “On the space of the ...
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Poverty: absolute or relative?
Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1988ABSTRACT In recent decades poverty has been defined as a relative rather than absolute notion. Those in poverty have been seen as poor relative to a level of income, or social condition, accepted as average or normal for a society. Poverty has been redefined as ‘relative deprivation’.
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The ethical poverty line: a moral quantification of absolute poverty
Third World Quarterly, 2006No description ...
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Absolute and relative income poverty measurement: a survey
2023This chapter reviews the debate opposing the absolute and relative approaches to income poverty measurement and introduces a proposal combining both approaches into a single “overall” income poverty measure. After presenting the most salient proposals of hybrid poverty lines, the chapter justifies with reasons why specific poverty indices may be ...
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Absolute and Proportionate Poverty
1999In almost all the countries, the absolute number and the share of population living below the country-specific poverty line have been declining. Some countries have, however, been more successful than others in annihilating poverty as the extent of the decline in poverty ratio widely differs across the developing world.
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Can a Poverty Index be Both Relative and Absolute?
Econometrica, 1994This paper further explores the logical interrelationship between scale invariance and translation invariance for a poverty index. It is demonstrated that among all focused poverty indices, the only measures that can be both scale invariant (relative) and translation invariant (absolute) are related to head counts; no index can be distribution ...
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