The Evolution of the Economic Thought on Poverty Measurement
INFER Research Perspectives, Vol. 7, 2008
Posted: 12 Oct 2008
Date Written: September 16, 2008
Abstract
This essay describes the evolution of the Economics of Poverty. It shows how the leading objectives of its authors changed over the decades. The description is roughly exhaustive from the end of the nineteenth-century to the "rediscovering poverty era" in the 1960s. After that, it concentrates in the fundamental ideas that constitute the existing theoretical framework of the poverty measurement, with an extended comment on the more relevant issues.
Keywords: Poverty measurement, economic thought
JEL Classification: B19, B29, B49, I32
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Nunes, Celso Pereira, The Evolution of the Economic Thought on Poverty Measurement (September 16, 2008). INFER Research Perspectives, Vol. 7, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1282706
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