The Poverty Line
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TextSeries: OXFORD INDIA SHORT INTRODUCTIONSPublication details: Oxford OUP 2012Description: xii,174p. illustrationsISBN: 9780198086086; 0198086083Subject(s): Poverty-IndiaDDC classification: 339.460954 Summary: This book reviews and critically interprets India's poverty norms, the US Federal Government's poverty thresholds and the World Bank's international poverty lines. It is a short introduction to the analytics and politics underlying the poverty line, a subject shot through with controversy and disputation, not least because the line plays such a crucial role in determining the measured magnitude and trends of a society's poverty.
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This book reviews and critically interprets India's poverty norms, the US Federal Government's poverty thresholds and the World Bank's international poverty lines. It is a short introduction to the analytics and politics underlying the poverty line, a subject shot through with controversy and disputation, not least because the line plays such a crucial role in determining the measured magnitude and trends of a society's poverty.
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