Povertà

Paolo Liberati

Rivista di Politica Economica, 2009, issue 1, 249-352

Abstract: What does poverty mean? Who is poor? And how to measure poverty? Notwithstanding its intuitive nature, the analysis of poverty is fraught with difficulties and disagreement with regard to both its definition and its measurement. To this purpose, this paper proposes a wide review of the debate that has characterised the long history of poverty and a critical analysis of the main indicators used for its measurement. It will be seen that an apparently simple concept may have a complex and not sharply defined realisation.

Keywords: poverty; measures of poverty; absolute and relative poverty; human poverty; human development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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