This book offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty … reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty remains stubbornly high in many … parts of the world. This publication argues that the mainstream perspectives on poverty and deprivation have contributed to …

European country to develop an anti-poverty strategy with a specific target. The poverty indicator developed for this purpose … used a definition of poverty in line with that proposed by the EU, reflecting both scarcity of resources (measured as … relative income poverty) and specific deficits in the standard of living. As a result of the rise in prosperity between 1994 …

Die aktuelle Debatte um Armut in Deutschland wird erregt geführt, ist aber am Ende meist fruchtlos für eine Politik der …

the Planning Commission poverty line, the paper computes poverty and inequality indices from the large sample surveys of … NSS consumer expenditure data and demonstrates that the intertemporal changes in the poverty ratio has been more …

The present paper discusses the poverty measurement techniques being used in and the poverty profile of Bangladesh … Poverty Monitoring Survey (PMS) conducted by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Poverty in Bangladesh was earlier measured … by direct calorie intake (DCI) method. The food energy intake (FEI) method was first used in the Poverty Monitoring …