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ETHICAL INDICES FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY


The Ethical and Policy Implications of Research on Income ...

Twenty indicators of child well-being (excluding child poverty) were ... Average income was measured as gross national income per ...

Measuring Poverty around the World - Princeton University Press

The persistence of poverty—in rich and poor countries alike—is one of the most serious problems facing humanity. Better measurement of poverty is essential for ...

Non-income dimensions of welfare | ECONOMICS & POVERTY

EOP relies heavily on measures of aggregate consumption at the household level in assessing the extent of poverty and assessing policies.

Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

poverty measures based on the traditional FGT measures of poverty. The ... (1980), 'Ethical indices for the measurement of poverty', Econometrica, 48, pp.

2020 U.S. Population More Racially, Ethnically Diverse Than in 2010

We present the following measures to describe the racial and ethnic diversity of the U.S. population: Diversity Index. Prevalence rankings and ...

Remarks on the ethical assessment of global poverty reduction ...

in the methodological critiques of poverty measurement, which tend to focus more on technical than ontological matters. ... Indicators of poverty and hunger.

Identification and Measurement of Multidimensional Relative ...

People gradually realize that poverty is a complex and comprehensive social phenomenon, in addition to income, poverty also involves the lack of ...

Poverty - Wikipedia

Predominant indices for measuring the complex nature of energy poverty include the Energy Development Index ... Ethics. edit. Human rights. edit. It is ...

Could you live on $1.90 a day? That's the international poverty line

If we want to stick with a single international line, we might use the “ethical poverty line” devised by Peter Edward of Newcastle University.

Multidimensional Poverty Measures: Motivations and Properties

multidimensional measures of poverty (and well-being) are on the upswing. In addition to moral or ethical motivations, they can be divided into three types ...

Conducting Ethical Research with those in Deep Poverty

variables that research measure in a variety of ways. Several articles can serve as an introduction to measuring these variables, such as: • Aber, L ...

Causes and Measures of Poverty, Inequality, and Social Exclusion

On the other hand, important inequality measures such as the Gini index and the Palma ratio are evaluated in order to find their potentials for policymaking.

Ethics of Global Poverty | PHIL2039 - University of Southampton

Ethics of Global Poverty examines the duties of affluent people towards those living in poverty around the world.

The Indexification of Poverty: The Covert Politics of Small‐Area Indices

This was a “new social morality, accompanied by a new science of measures ... The Index includes, as an indicator of income deprivation, the ...

The moral egregiousness of poverty is worse than ever before in ...

The first step is to measure our relative capacity to end poverty. One conceptually easy way is to determine the cost of lifting everyone above ...

American Poverty Should Be Measured Relative to the Prevailing ...

The article shows why relative measures of poverty are superior to their alternatives, and especially those called “absolute” measures. It makes ...

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis: Chapter 3

(GEM) (UNDP 1995), and, within poverty measurement, the Human Poverty Index ... I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement. OUP, ch. 18. Bowley, A. L. and Burnett ...

Business Ethics Index: Measuring Corporate Responsibility

The Business Ethics Index (BEI) is a quantitative measure of the ethical performance of businesses based on the perceptions of consumers, ...

4.1 Defining and Measuring Poverty

This form of poverty is measured against a fixed standard, often defined by a specific income threshold, which reflects the amount needed to ...

Measuring and Monitoring Child Poverty | UNICEF Data

The practical questions, then, are to select the dimensions to be included, the thresholds of indicators to assess deprivation in each of them, and how to ...