The Definition and Measurement of Poverty

By S. Oster, Elizabeth E. Lake, C. Oksman. 2019

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Vulnerability and Chronic Poverty in Rural Sichuan (2003, background): “…and Thorbecke (1984) provide a seminal paper on a frequently used class of decomposable poverty measures; Ravallion (1992), Ravallion (1996) and Walker and Ashworth (1994) provide reviews of the definition and measure- ment of poverty and the issues involved in making poverty comparisons over…”
International comparisons of Poverty Intensity: Index Decomposition and Bootstrap Inference (2000, background): “…member as: (15) Here Y is total household income (Disposable Personal Income), N is the number of the adults ina the household and N is the number of the children under age 18. c As Hagenaars (1991) and many others have noted, there has long been a debate on how best to conceptualize poverty.”