ISBN:
9780444823021
Content:
The structure, efficiency, and growth of production affect (and are affected by) the distribution of consumption. Poverty analysis has three tasks: (1) to define and describe poverty, (2) to understand its causes, and (3) to inform policy. This chapter outlines history of economic thought on poverty since the mercantilists, concentrating on relevance to current economic analysis and policy. It examines how poverty is defined and measured. Evidence from modern household surveys has allowed in the examination of the interactions between demographic, nutritional, and labor-force characteristics of poverty groups. In this process, modern economics is developing some of the central insights of the classical economists, though with measurement and modeling methods not available to them. The chapter discusses the classic development issue of the effect of growth on poverty and inequality, and (the recent classic) macroeconomic adjustment and the poor. It explores several issues that arise in governmental attempts to reduce poverty through direct interventions.
In:
Handbook of development economics, Amsterdam : Elsevier, 1995, (1995), Seite 2551-2657, 9780444823021
In:
0444823026
In:
year:1995
In:
pages:2551-2657
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1016/S1573-4471(95)30018-X
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