The conventional view of poverty in the European Union countries is based on a relative measure, which defines all those with incomes below 60 percent of the median as poor. In the U.S., poverty is defined according to an absolute measure--the federal poverty line computed ...
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The first thing many learn about international poverty measurement is that European nations apply a "relative" poverty threshold and that they also do a better job of reducing poverty. Unlike the European model, the "absolute" U.S. poverty threshold does not increase in ...
In December of 2009, many within the American community of analysts, policymakers, and program managers are looking expectantly at the possibility of change in the basic measure used to gauge poverty in the United States. A broad consensus has emerged that the current official measure of poverty in the United ...
This paper compares, both conceptually and empirically, the present official poverty measure with a relative measure of poverty. In the conceptual section selected issues common to both poverty measures, and to the measurement of ...
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This paper assesses the extent to which the infant mortality rate might be treated as a "proxy" for poverty in research on cross-national variation in homicide rates. We have assembled a pooled, cross-sectional time-series dataset for 16 advanced nations over the 1993-2000 period that includes standard measures of infant mortality and homicide and also ...
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This paper assesses the extent to which the infant mortality rate might be treated as a �proxy� for poverty in research on cross-national variation in homicide rates. We have assembled a pooled, cross-sectional time-series dataset for 16 advanced nations over the 1993�2000 period that includes standard measures of infant mortality and homicide and ...
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A change in a country�s minimum wage will in general affect the number of workers in covered sector employment, uncovered sector employment, and unemployment. The impact of these labor market adjustments on absolute poverty will depend on how the pattern of employment composition changes within households and on how income is shared within households. An ...
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We report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world for the period 1981�2004. A clear trend decline in the percentage of people who are absolutely poor is evident, although with uneven progress across regions. We find more mixed success in reducing the total number of poor. Indeed, ...
We report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world for the period 1981-2004. A clear trend decline in the percentage of people who are absolutely poor is evident, although with uneven progress across regions. We find more mixed success in reducing the total number of poor. Indeed, the ...
This report examines poverty among working families with children using experimental measures of poverty that are based on recommendations by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance. These experimental poverty measure...
The purpose of the report is to shed light on the basic facts of poverty in the East Asian developing countries--past progress in abating poverty, and how many poor remain in the 1990s, based on a common definition of absolute poverty. It then adjusts dat...
This paper takes issue with most evidence in the literature on poverty that attempts to show that increasing household income alone is not enough to significantly combat malnutrition in impoverished areas of the world. It reviews these claims in the literature and argues that the cut-off points for poverty lines taken to measure the ...
The paper analyzes subjective poverty in Hungary and compares it to the objective poverty concepts. Subjective poverty is defined by examining who people consider to be poor. Based on the Easterlin paradox, the initial hypothesis states that subjective and absolute poverty concepts are highly ...
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The Poverty and Food Security Case Studies dataset consists of small area estimates of poverty, inequality, food security and related measures for ...
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This report presents experimental measures of poverty in the United States. These measures are illustrative variations of the recommendations of the Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance: Concepts, Information Needs, and Measurement Methods of the Nation...
... Title : Absolute Gravity Measurements with Reversible Pendulums at Potsdam, 1968-1969 (Absolute Schwaremessungen mit Reversionpendein in ...
The study examines the characteristics and distribution of urban poverty in major Guatemalan cities and the measures being taken to alleviate this poverty. Included are a brief analysis of the major population shifts contributing to urban poverty in Guate...
The Small Area Estimates of Poverty and Inequality dataset consists of consumption-based poverty, inequality and related measures for subnational administrative ... ...
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The Poverty and Food Security Case Studies dataset consists of small area estimates of poverty, inequality, food security and related measures for subnational ... ...
Abstract: The Poverty and Food Security Case Studies dataset consists of small area estimates of poverty, inequality, food security and related measures for ...
Shows the percentage of the population living on less than 1 USD per day at purchasing power parity for 58 countries for which the statistic is applicable. Shows the prevalence of poverty as measured by a uniform international standard. Though the concept of absolute poverty remains valuable, data are the most ...
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Poverty is increasingly being understood as a multidimensional phenomenon. Other than income-consumption, which has been extensively studied in the past, health, education, shelter, and social involvement are among the most important dimensions of poverty. The present study attempts to develop a simple tool to measure ...
The MSTAR sensor (Modulation Sideband Technology for Absolute Ranging) is a new system for measuring
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In the United States, poverty is generally assessed on the basis of income, as reported in the Current Population Survey's (CPS's) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), using an official poverty standard established in the 1960s. The prevalence of receipt of means-tested transfers is underreported in the CPS, with uncertain consequences for the ...
Vol. II contains an annotated bibliography of the existing literature on a series of issues associated with the definition and measurement of poverty.
issues with the Senegal Data. #12;14 GANE SAMB LO 6. Conclusion The GPI includes most of the poverty indices] Kakwani, N. (2003). Issues on Setting Absolute Poverty Line. Poverty and Social Developpement, Papers, n3THE GENERALIZED POVERTY INDEX GANE SAMB LO Abstract. We introduce the General ...
The document contains four reports entitled: A context and summary for a study of some basic issues of poverty; Toward a new basis for the evaluation of anti-poverty programs; Characteristics of alternative antipoverty measures; The future of poverty, a p...
The paper presents estimates of the extent of absolute poverty for ten Latin American countries and for the region as a whole in the 1970s, on the basis of available household surveys and population censuses. They are based on country-specific poverty lin...
How poor are participants in development projects? This paper analyzes how well a simple scorecard identifies poor clients at a microlender in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The scorecard effectively ranks clients by relative poverty and also identifies the likelihood that a client is poor by an absolute standard. The score tracks poverty more ...
measure offers a standard measurement for comparing poverty rates throughout the industrialized world Canada into the world body regarding poverty measurement. Table 1 compares poverty rates in SaskatchewanJUNE 2008 A Question of Prosperity Poverty in ...
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The Phase 1 project focused on the development of a multiwave interferometer to measure absolute distance. Its applications are in gauging and for measuring absolute position of machine tools, and coordinate measuring machines. This interferometer overcom...
Abstract: The Small Area Estimates of Poverty and Inequality dataset consists of consumption-based poverty, inequality and related measures for subnational ...
This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a data collection for a large household panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the ...
The report shows how changes in poverty measures can be decomposed into growth and redistribution components and uses the methodology to study poverty in Brazil and India during the 1980s. Redistribution alleviated poverty in India, though growth was quan...
