Socioeconomic Characteristics of Poverty: Macro and Micro Aspects

Toshiyuki Mizoguchi

Asian Development Review (ADR), 1990, vol. 08, issue 01, 18-43

Abstract: Poverty is one of the most important issues facing economic and social policy today. Many attempts have been made to classify the poor and analyze the causes of poverty. However, many unsolved puzzles remain due to the fact that poverty is multi-dimensional in nature, having originated from a diverse range of conditions. In addition, concepts of poverty have changed over the years. In the early 1950s, when pioneer work on poverty was first undertaken by Rowntree and others, the poor were defined as families whose total (current) earnings were insufficient to obtain the bare essentials for survival…

Date: 1990
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