address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U … of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the approaches to poverty based on income and wealth that have been … defining the poverty frontier, and those in which these two dimensions are integrated into a single index of welfare. We … illustrate the implications of these approaches on the structure of poverty using data for two industrialized countries …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the approaches to poverty based on income and wealth that have been … defining the poverty frontier, and those in which these two dimensions are integrated into a single index of welfare. We … illustrate the implications of these approaches on the structure of poverty using data for two industrialized countries - for …