The Language of the Poverty Line

S. Subramanian ()
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Chapter Chapter 14 in Inequality and Poverty, 2019, pp 47-49 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A major component of the exercise of measuring poverty is the so-called identification exercise, which usually translates to the requirement of stipulating a poverty line in income (or more generally, ‘money-metric’) space. Chapter 14 argues that it would be a folly to see the identification exercise as an uncomplicated problem if one insists on a responsible use of language that respects the notion of ‘meaning’ in ordinary communication.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8185-0_14

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