for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare …

We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large … increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first … absolute poverty and also substantially under-estimated the rise in relative poverty. Their and our findings on poverty reflect …

affected the income position of high-income pensioners. However, also the structure of public pension benefits had a poverty …