Measuring poverty
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...
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my.uum.repo.2372010-07-15T00:37:01Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/237/ Measuring poverty David, Demery HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare 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 poverty measurement, more than a dozen new poverty measures have been proposed. These measures have their strengths and weaknesses and it is now generally accepted that a complete picture of poverty requires consideration of more than one single measure. We shall assess a number of key indices of poverty and conclude by outlining some useful graphical methods of presenting the various dimensions of poverty. 2005 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/237/1/MEASURING_POVERTY.pdf David, Demery (2005) Measuring poverty. In: Training Course on Constructing the Malaysian Poverty Line Income, 2-4 February 2005. (Unpublished) |
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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 poverty measurement, more than a dozen new poverty measures have been proposed. These measures have their strengths and weaknesses and it is now generally
accepted that a complete picture of poverty requires consideration of more than one single measure. We shall assess a number of key indices of poverty and conclude by outlining some useful graphical methods of presenting the various dimensions of poverty. |
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