Living Decently

Peter Travers and Sue Richardson
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Peter Travers: Flinders University of South Australia
Sue Richardson: Department of Economics, University of Adelaide

No 1992-02, School of Economics and Public Policy Working Papers from University of Adelaide, School of Economics and Public Policy

Abstract: Our starting point is to re-examine the concept of poverty, in particular its ethical dimensions, in order to understand more clearly exactly what poverty lines are intended to capture. Our concern with poverty lines is twofold. First, they are not credible measures of poverty, because they treat ethical judgments as matters of technical measurement. Second, they are in practice much more to do with inequality at the bottom end of the income distribution than with poverty. We wish to rehabilitate the concept of poverty.

Keywords: poverty; ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 1992
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