走向贫困衡量尺度的第三阶段 斯坦·林恩（The third stage of measuring poverty Stan Lynn）.doc

走向贫困衡量尺度的第三阶段 斯坦·林恩（The third stage of measuring poverty Stan Lynn） The third stage of measuring poverty Stan Lynn In this century, especially in the past 20 years, although the concept of poverty has greatly evolved, but the measure method basically does not have what change, from a theoretical point of view, in addition to replace the traditional concept of minimum living standard, and the formation of the concept of relative poverty. But in the measure, regardless of what is the use of the concept, the most important measure of income is still the poverty line, the only difference is only the poverty line set at what level, generally speaking, in the allocation of research, although he has already been warned, do not put the single income as the standard of living mark, and has formed the living conditions of the method of direct measure of consumption, but continue to use the indirect income method in poverty research, this paper argues that there needs to be a measure of poverty and poverty, this method is consistent with the modern concept, but also points out how to combine the living conditions in the study are the same lesson study on poverty to form such a measure. Poverty -- concept and measurement Quantitative research on poverty, the most basic problem is to determine the individual or family poverty, to determine if the object is improper, then all the judgments are false, regardless of its objective to estimate the incidence of poverty (i.e. the proportion of poverty, poverty) that the size range (for example: the poverty gap, even if all income below the poverty line to line poverty levels required for the transfer of income or total), composition analysis of poverty (for example: the poor income distribution), or statistics for this group of social population specific index, determining what is poor, what the poor need? Obviously, both the concept of poverty (what is poverty)? To explicitly measure the way (which is the poor?). The quantitative stu