Poverty: What is it and Why do we care?

John Micklewright () and Andrea Brandolini ()

No 21-32, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: We discuss the instrumental and intrinsic reasons for concern about poverty, its definition – absolute/relative, unidimensional/multidimensional – and the visual communication of what poverty really means.

Keywords: Great poverty; income; consumption; multidimensional poverty; communication. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C80 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-11-01
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