The Census Bureau has estimated the nation's annual poverty rate since 1963 using data from the Bureau's Current … the nature of material deprivation within the household. This paper will take an alternative approach to assessing poverty …

This paper develops and applies new measures of poverty that overcome a number of specific methodological flaws in the … official US poverty statistics. Sen's distribution sensitive index of poverty and each of its components are estimated at … several distinct poverty thresholds for the period 1961-1996. Distribution sensitive measures of urban poverty are corrected …

Adam Smith's views on poverty have received less attention than one would expect, but they are worth examining. In the … Moral Sentiments Smith takes a skeptical, ironic view of the striving for material goods and wealth. Poverty is treated not … “poverty” (poorness) as widespread but not problematic in commercial society, since wage earners do not experience actual …

such issues as the need for adequate wages, the prevalence of poverty, and the adverse impacts of the globalization of …

This issue of Banking and Community Perspectives analyzes the dynamics of concentrated poverty in rural and urban …

-section/time-series models of the effects of unemployment on alternative poverty indexes. The indexes include the official headcount rate and …, the declines in unemployment of the last decade had no significant impact on poverty. The findings thus provide important … lessons for researchers exploring the links between economic conditions and poverty and for policymakers developing strategies …

In spite of rapid overall economic growth in the 1990s, rural poverty in Pakistan did not decline. Panel data covering … rural households in four districts in Pakistan suggest that real incomes of many households declined between the early 1990s … impact on rural poverty. …

income of the poorest households and largely explain the recent increase in rural poverty. …