years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained …This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to thestudy of poverty in the past twenty five … unchanged in that period despite its increasingly importantdeficiencies. Proposals to produce a revised poverty line and an …

limited to standardeconomic measures of poverty based on incomes or expenditures,but also include trends in selected … thepopulation is now living in poverty. Real wages have fallen,joblessness has increased, school enrolment has dropped andgeneral …

Effective provision of public goods is a key determinant of quality of life. Conventional approaches to poverty … measurement look only at private goods, butthis view is too narrow. Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, transport …

Equivalisation of incomes for household size and composition is acceptedpractice when measuring poverty and inequality … possible source of additional needs: disability. Using twoUK household surveys, we seek to establish whether there are extra … costs ofliving associated with disability, and to quantify them using the ‘standard ofliving’ approach. The underlying …

explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the …

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