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incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …
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This paper examines poverty in the United States from 1960 through 2005. We investigate how poverty rates and poverty … different income and consumption measures of poverty, and consider explanations for the differences in trends. We document sharp … differences, particularly in recent years, between different income poverty measures, and between income and consumption poverty …
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In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …
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wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies …
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The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than … used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in … large countries, particularly India, China, and the US. In consequence, measured poverty has fallen less rapidly than …
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We evaluate consumption and income measures of the material well-being of the poor. We begin with conceptual and pragmatic reasons that favor income or consumption. Then, we empirically examine the quality of standard data by studying measurement error and under-reporting, and by comparing...
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political debate surrounding poverty. Policy changes included a radical shift in welfare policy, a sizable expansion in supports … plummeted, work rose dramatically among single parents, and poverty was reduced. At the same time, there are indications that …
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Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both … official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty …, or policy-account for the observed changes in poverty in the two nations and what role could policy play in reducing …
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We have used a unique longitudinal database that incorporates information from diverse administrative and research sources to examine the impact of the early stages of welfare reform on poor working families who do not receive cash assistance. Our data are for 2791 working poor families from...
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well-being in place of measures based on current money income docs change conclusions concerning the extent of poverty in … the United Stales. Using the official federal poverty thresholds. we find that the overall consumption poverty rate was … three percentage points below the income poverty rate in 1988. Comparisons of the poverty rates of the elderly and the non …
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