Poverty Measurement: The Development of Different Approaches and Its Techniques

Celso Nunes

No 93, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: This work concentrates in the fundamental ideas that constitute the existing theoretical framework of the poverty measurement from the 1960’s to the state-of-the-art, with an extended comment on the more relevant issues, the presentation of more influencing approaches and the probable path of future research in Poverty Economics

Keywords: Economic Thought; Poverty; Measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B19 B29 B49 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2008
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