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Resources, Deprivation, And Poverty
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Abstract
Poverty is a notoriously ill-defined term, both in common usage and in academic application. Empirical research on poverty has to deal first of all with the ambiguities and confusions associated with the term and concept: what is it that one is actually trying to measure? It then has to address the problem that the various approaches to measuring poverty that are used in practice may not adequately implement the underlying concept: they may not correctly identify those one would wish to call ‘poor’. Despite the attention poverty statistics receive from policy-makers and the broader public, there is remarkably little consensus among social scientists on how best to measure the condition. In this book our aim is to identify and address key problems with the ways in which poverty has generally been conceptualized and measured in relatively rich countries. The core issue is how to define and measure poverty in such countries in a way that is valid, meaningful in the context, and valuable for policy-making.
Title: Resources, Deprivation, And Poverty
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Abstract
Poverty is a notoriously ill-defined term, both in common usage and in academic application.
Empirical research on poverty has to deal first of all with the ambiguities and confusions associated with the term and concept: what is it that one is actually trying to measure? It then has to address the problem that the various approaches to measuring poverty that are used in practice may not adequately implement the underlying concept: they may not correctly identify those one would wish to call ‘poor’.
Despite the attention poverty statistics receive from policy-makers and the broader public, there is remarkably little consensus among social scientists on how best to measure the condition.
In this book our aim is to identify and address key problems with the ways in which poverty has generally been conceptualized and measured in relatively rich countries.
The core issue is how to define and measure poverty in such countries in a way that is valid, meaningful in the context, and valuable for policy-making.
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