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Poverty Measurement

2017
Abstract This article focuses on the complexities and idiosyncrasies of poverty measurement, from its origins to current practice. It first considers various concepts of poverty and their measurement and how economists, social statisticians, public policy scholars, sociologists, and other social scientists have contributed to this ...
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Demystifying Poverty Measurement in Vietnam

, 2015
This paper provides an overview of poverty measurement issues in Vietnam for the non-specialist. Vietnam has two main approaches to measuring poverty. An income-based approach is used by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs to generate a ...
G. Demombynes, L. Vu
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New child poverty measure will not measure child poverty

British Journal of School Nursing, 2015
The government's plan to scrap its 2020 pledge to end child poverty and alter how it measures child poverty, removing any link to family income, may help ministers to present a positive picture in five years' time, but it will do nothing to help those living in poverty, says Pete Henshaw
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Rethinking global poverty measurement [PDF]

, 2012
[Introduction] From a money-metric perspective, poverty is a crystal-clear concept. A household is considered to be poor (poverty is typically estimated for households, not for individuals) if the total income or expenditure of its members lies below a specific threshold (referred to as the poverty line) which reflects the cost of meeting the family’s ...
Khalid Abu-Ismail, Gihan Abou Taleb, Racha Ramadan   +2 more
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Measuring Poverty: Advances to the Supplemental Poverty Measure

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Measuring poverty is a complex undertaking. It requires extensive research, expert judgment of how to define resources and needs, and a data infrastructure that enables accurate measurement. In this article, we briefly summarize the evolution of poverty measurement in the U.S.
David S. Johnson, Helen Levy, Jordan Matsudaira, Barbara L. Wolfe, James P. Ziliak   +4 more
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Combining absolute and relative poverty: income poverty measurement with two poverty lines.

Social Choice and Welfare, 2020
Benoit Decerf
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Global poverty measurement when relative income matters

Journal of Public Economics, 2019
M. Ravallion, Shaohua Chen
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Poverty Counts: Living with Poverty and Poverty Measures

2013
Counting or measuring poverty is frequently meant to explain how poverty counts — how it affects people’s lives and the conditions in which they live. Anthropologists have contributed to the study of poverty, although often as a corollary rather than as a central objective of ethnographic research.
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A comprehensive review on energy poverty: definition, measurement, socioeconomic impact and its alleviation for carbon neutrality

Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2023
Shengfang Lu, Jingzheng Ren
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Policy prescriptions to address energy and transport poverty in the United Kingdom

Nature Energy, 2023
Benjamin K Sovacool, Paul John Upham, Mari Martiskainen   +2 more
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