Absolute versus Relative Poverty By JAMES E FOSTER* Should poverty be measured using an "ab- solute" or a "relative" approach? This age- old question in poverty measurement is once again on the agenda, due to the ambitious pro- posals of Patricia Ruggles (1990) and the Na- tional Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (Constance Citro and Robert Michael, 1995) to alter the way U Taille du fichier : 319KB PDF
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Absolute versus Relative Poverty By JAMES E FOSTER* Should poverty be measured using an "ab- solute" or a "relative" approach? This age- old question in poverty measurement is once again on the agenda, due to the ambitious pro- posals of Patricia Ruggles (1990) and the Na- tional Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (Constance Citro and Robert Michael, 1995) to alter the way U Taille du fichier : 319KB PDF
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Absolute and Relative Deprivation and the Measurement of Poverty by Jean-Yves Duclos Department of Economics and CRÉFA, Université Laval, Canada and UNSW, Sydney, Australia and Philippe Grégoire CRÉFA, Université Laval, Canada and Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada Abstract This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of PDF
Title: Monitoring absolute and relative poverty; ‘not
Title: Monitoring absolute and relative poverty; ‘not enough’ is not the same as ‘much less’ 1 Author 1: Geranda Notten, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Author 2: Chris de Neubourg, Economics Department, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands and Innocenti Research Centre, Unicef, Florence, Italy 2 Abstract PDF
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