Counting the Poor
New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 July 2012
- ISBN 9780199860586
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 160x234x43 mm
- Weight 816 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 54 line-cuts 0
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Short description:
With contributions from the world's foremost authorities on social measurement, this volume promises to be the definitive reference for poverty researchers and policymakers seeking to disengage politics from measurement.
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The poverty rate is one of the most visible ways in which nations measure the economic well-being of their low-income citizens. To gauge whether a person is poor, European states often focus on a person's relative position in the income distribution to measure poverty while the United States looks at a fixed-income threshold that represents a lower relative standing in the overall distribution to gauge. In Europe, low income is perceived as only one aspect of being socially excluded, so that examining other relative dimensions of family and individual welfare is important. This broad emphasis on relative measures of well-being that extend into non-pecuniary aspects of people's lives does not always imply that more people would ultimately be counted as poor. This is particularly true if one must be considered poor in multiple dimensions to be considered poor, in sharp contrast to the American emphasis on income as the sole dimension.
With contributions from the world's foremost authorities on income and social measurement, the book provides detailed discussions of specific issues from a European perspective followed by commentary from American observers. The volume considers (1) current standards of poverty measurement in the European Union and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, (2) challenges in extending those measures to account for the value of the provision of in-kind and cash benefits from the government, (3) the interaction of poverty measures with social assistance, (4) non-income but monetary measures of poverty, and (5) multi-dimensional measures of poverty. The result is a definitive reference for poverty researchers and policymakers seeking to disengage politics from measurement.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
Douglas J. Besharov and Kenneth A. Couch
Part I. European Measures of Income, Poverty, and Inequality
2. The OECD Approach to Measuring Income Distribution and Poverty
Michael F. Förster and Marco Mira d'Ercole
3. Income Indicators for the EU's Social Inclusion Strategy
Isabelle Maquet and David Stanton
4. Deconstructing European Poverty Measures
Richard V. Burkhauser
Part II. Broadening Measures of Income and Other Financial Resources
5. Accounting for the Distributional Effects of Non-cash Public Benefits
Holly Sutherland and Panos Tsakloglou
6. Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows
Joachim R. Frick and Markus M. Grabka
7. Accounting for Employee Benefits
Neil Gilbert
8. Impressionistic Realism: A European Focus on U.S. Poverty Measurement
David S. Johnson
Part III. Income Levels for Social Assistance and their Behavioral Effects
9. Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries
Herwig Immervoll
10. Social Assistance Schemes in Developing Countries
Margaret Grosh, Carlo del Ninno, and Emil Tesliuc
11. Europe's Other Poverty Measures: Absolute Thresholds Underlying Social Assistance
Richard Bavier
Part IV. Non-Income Monetary Measures
12. Asset-Based Measurement of Poverty
Andrea Brandolini, Silvia Magri, and Timothy M. Smeeding
13. Consumption-Based Measures in Developing Nations: Lessons from Brazil
Peter Lanjouw
14. Alternatives to Income-Based Measures of Poverty
Kenneth A. Couch
Part V. Multi-Dimensional Measures
15. Developing and Learning from EU Measures of Social Inclusion
Eric Marlier, Bea Cantillon, Brian Nolan, Karel Van den Bosch, and Tim Van Rie
16. Using Non-Monetary Deprivation Indicators to Analyze European Poverty and Social Exclusion
Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan
17. Poverty Redefined as Low Consumption and Low Wealth, Not Just Low Income: Psychological Consequences in Australia and Germany
Bruce Headey, Peter Krause, and Gert G. Wagner
18. Anomalies in European Measures of Poverty and Social Exclusion
Neil Gilbert
Part VI. Conclusion
19. New Comparative Measures of Income, Material Deprivation, and Well-Being
Timothy M. Smeeding
