The challenges faced in calibrating poverty and welfare measures to objective data have long been recognized. Until …, the idea of a "social subjective poverty line" (below which people tend to think they are poor, but above which they do … not) is arguably the most conceptually appealing way of defining poverty. However, the paper points to a number of …

Word searches of Google's library of digitized books suggest that there have been two "Poverty Enlightenments" since … only the second came with a widespread belief that poverty could and should be eliminated. After the first Poverty … Enlightenment, references to "poverty" (as a percentage of all words) were on a trend decline until 1960, after which there was a …

There has been a growing interest in what have come to be termed "multidimensional indices of poverty." Advocates for … that other factors need to be considered when quantifying the extent of poverty and informing policy making for fighting … poverty. However, the author argues that there are two poorly understood issues in assessing these indices. First, does one …