Measuring poverty

• المؤلف الرئيسي: David, Demery
• التنسيق: Conference or Workshop Item
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2005
• الموضوعات: HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://repo.uum.edu.my/237/1/MEASURING_POVERTY.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/237/

The most commonly used measure is the ‘headcount’ ratio - simply the total number of poor households or individuals expressed as a ratio of the number of all households or individuals. This measures the incidence of poverty. But in the quarter of a century after Sen’s (1976) groundbreaking work on p...