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Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and...
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inherent in defining and measuring the size of urban versus rural populations. We show that differences in the measurement of …
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This Policy Brief is an outcome of the UNU-WIDER research project 'Social Development Indicators'. The overall aim of the project was to provide insights into how human well-being might be better conceptualized and, in particular, measured, by reviewing various concepts and measures and then...
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This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … functionings. In addition to an introductory and a concluding part, the paper has four sections. The first of these, on measurement … rankings; poverty measures and anti-poverty policy; and other issues in the measurement of poverty. The third section considers …
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. The implications of directly incorporating group disparities into the measurement of poverty for poverty comparisons and …
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