Socioeconomic Characteristics of Poverty: Macro and Micro Aspects
Poverty is one of the most important issues facing economic and social policy today. Many attempts have been made to classify the poor and analyze the causes of poverty. However, many unsolved puzzles remain due to the fact that poverty is multi-dimensional in nature, having originated from a divers...
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| description | Poverty is one of the most important issues facing economic and social policy today. Many attempts have been made to classify the poor and analyze the causes of poverty. However, many unsolved puzzles remain due to the fact that poverty is multi-dimensional in nature, having originated from a diverse range of conditions. In addition, concepts of poverty have changed over the years. In the early 1950s, when pioneer work on poverty was first undertaken by Rowntree and others, the poor were defined as families whose total (current) earnings were insufficient to obtain the bare essentials for survival… |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e76040b9ade04abea71c984b4c8e4d052023-06-28T07:11:13ZengWorld Scientific PublishingAsian Development Review0116-11051996-72411990-01-010801184310.1142/S0116110590000021Socioeconomic Characteristics of Poverty: Macro and Micro AspectsToshiyuki MizoguchiPoverty is one of the most important issues facing economic and social policy today. Many attempts have been made to classify the poor and analyze the causes of poverty. However, many unsolved puzzles remain due to the fact that poverty is multi-dimensional in nature, having originated from a diverse range of conditions. In addition, concepts of poverty have changed over the years. In the early 1950s, when pioneer work on poverty was first undertaken by Rowntree and others, the poor were defined as families whose total (current) earnings were insufficient to obtain the bare essentials for survival…https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S0116110590000021 |
| spellingShingle | Toshiyuki Mizoguchi Socioeconomic Characteristics of Poverty: Macro and Micro Aspects Asian Development Review |
| title | Socioeconomic Characteristics of Poverty: Macro and Micro Aspects |
| title_full | Socioeconomic Characteristics of Poverty: Macro and Micro Aspects |
| title_fullStr | Socioeconomic Characteristics of Poverty: Macro and Micro Aspects |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socioeconomic Characteristics of Poverty: Macro and Micro Aspects |
| title_short | Socioeconomic Characteristics of Poverty: Macro and Micro Aspects |
| title_sort | socioeconomic characteristics of poverty macro and micro aspects |
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