Poverty Measurement: The Development of Different Approaches and its Techniques

Abstract

This work concentrates in the fundamental ideas that constitute the existing theoretical framework of the poverty measurement from the 1960's to the state-of-the-art, with an extended comment on the more relevant issues, the presentation of more influencing approaches and the probable path of future research in Poverty Economics.

Keywords: Approaches, Poverty Measurement, Techniques

JEL Classification: B49, I32