Poverty

Vani Borooah

Chapter 10 in Growth, Unemployment, Distribution and Government, 1996, pp 86-92 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Most people have an intuitive appreciation of what constitutes poverty. The pensioner relying on the heat of a single electric bar to see him/her through the winter or the lone parent unable to afford a television licence are some of the images of poverty. However, in order to analyse poverty, rather than to simply describe it in a particular situation, one needs some criteria which can be applied to individuals and families living in a variety of circumstances, on the basis of which they can be judged to be poor or not. This is the problem of identification.

Keywords: Poverty Line; Poverty Rate; Poverty Index; Income Support; Social Standard (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230373006_10

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