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HYMAN KAPLAN AND THE G*L*O*B*A*L P*O*V*E*R*T*Y L*I*N*E

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2016

Sreenivasan Subramanian
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Abstract

There is a surprising amount of philosophy (in terms of both values and logic) underlying the way we choose to measure poverty, including in the matter of the seemingly uncomplicated task of specifying an income poverty line. The present essay examines some of these issues of fact, value, and reasoning as they apply to the enterprise of assessing magnitudes of, and trends in, global money-metric poverty.

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Think , Volume 15 , Issue 43 , Summer 2016 , pp. 91 - 102
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2016 

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