Defining poverty
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- Changing poverty incidence through changing poverty measures?
- ( A. W. Parsons / Share The World's Resources , 2008)
- The recent revision of the World Bank’s international poverty line, from $1.08 to $1.25 a day, classified an additional 430 million people as living in extreme poverty. Despite this the Bank cla...
- Figures that do not reflect reality: poverty reduction in West and Central Africa
- ( Q. Wodon / World Bank , 2007)
- Certain African countries have experienced economic growth in recent years, yet people do not report that their poverty situation has improved. This brief asks to what extent is there a divergence bet...
- Ask the poor about poverty: a subjective multidimensional concept of poverty
- ( B. Van Praag;A. Ferrer-i-Carbonell / University of Amsterdam , 2006)
- Conventional definitions of poverty describe it as an economic condition. Contrarily, this paper describes poverty as comprising of subjective and multi-dimensional elements. Authors address two key i...
- The importance of working with the the poor's perception of poverty
- ( A. Witteveen;E. Ludi;G. Felber / www.poverty-wellbeing.net , 2008)
- This document is the second of a series addressing issues surrounding poverty and poverty reduction. It explains perceptions of poverty of the poor, well off and development practitioners to give a mo...
- Looking at how we understand poverty
- ( E. Ludi;K. Bird / , 2008)
- The brief on ‘Understanding Poverty’ gives an overview of various definitional and measurement issues related to poverty that has emerged in the research field over time. It deals with the...
- A critique of the World Bank's Jordan poverty assessment 2004
- ( T. El-Rayyes / Center for Strategic Studies, Jordan , 2008)
- The Jordan Poverty Assessment was produced by the Government of Jordan and the World Bank in 2004. It uses a new poverty line to calculate that 14.7% of the population is poor. But how accurate is thi...
- Reducing poverty in Sri-Lanka: could the government do better?
- ( A.G.W. Nanayakkara / Department of Census & Statistics, Sri Lanka , 2007)
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This paper discusses the methodology that is being used by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) in computing Official Poverty Line (OPL).. It also gives the definitions of various measures...
- The impact of family background on socio-economic achievement
- ( S. Jenkins / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK , 2007)
- This paper argues that a person’s family background is likely to have crucial impacts on his or her later-life socio-economic achievement, regardless of the level of development of the country w...
- Identifying the most in need of aid in non-OECD countries
- ( E. Anderson / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK , 2007)
- This paper provides a classification of non-OECD countries on the basis of the level of, and the change in, their average welfare over recent decades. The aim is to improve on existing classifications...
- Improving poverty definition and analysis
- ( T. McKinley / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth , 2006)
- This one-pager from the International Poverty Centre details the changable meanings of poverty and human development. It aims to stimulate a broader debate and lead to greater conceptual and operation...
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