Measuring povertywhat's in the line?

Resumo

Despite a long pedigree that dates back to late Victorian England, the notion of a ‘poverty line’ – a welfare threshold expressed in monetary terms – is not without its problems. Critics contend that the idea of a discrete cut-off point separating the poor from the non-poor is conceptually flawed as poverty and well-being can best be seen as a continuum. There is, in fact, considerable movement into and out of poverty that studies relying on a fixed poverty line fail to capture. (...)

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Estudo

Ano

2004

Instituição

Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada

Fonte

Repositório do Ipea

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/15496

Licença

Licença total exclusiva

Palavras-chave

Poverty