Understanding Poverty Rates and Gaps
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9781933019819
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; The Incidence of Poverty; Measuring resources; Drawing the line; Trends in the U.S. poverty rate; The Intensity and Inequality of Poverty; Sen's (1976) core axioms; The poverty gap; Distribution-sensitive poverty measures; A portrait of poverty; New Challenges in Poverty Measurement; The rise of imputations in the CPS; The rise of in-kind transfers in the safety net; The future of the CPS in poverty measurement; Recommendations; Acknowledgments; References