Presidential address: How to improve poverty measurement in the united states
Presidential address: How to improve poverty measurement in the united states
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DOI：
10.1002/pam.20323
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Blank, Rebecca M.
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作者：
Blank, Rebecca M.
本文讨论了美国官方贫困衡量标准过时和对许多反贫困举措反应迟钝的原因。由于政治、技术和制度方面的原因，更新和改进统计数据的各种努力都失败了。与此同时，欧洲联盟正在采取一种非常不同的方法来衡量贫困。该文件最后提出了四个建议步骤，这些步骤将使美国能够改善其对贫困和经济需求的衡量。
This paper discusses the reasons why the current official U.S. poverty measure is outdated and nonresponsive to many anti-poverty initiatives. A variety of efforts to update and improve the statistic have failed, for political, technical, and institutional reasons. Meanwhile, the European Union is taking a very different approach to poverty measurement. The paper ends with four recommended steps that would allow the U.S. to improve its measurement of poverty and economic need.