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MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY: POLAND IN THE 1980s
Author(s) -
Szulc Adam
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1995.tb00108.x
Subject(s) - poverty , economics , equivalence (formal languages) , consumption (sociology) , welfare , demographic economics , measuring poverty , development economics , econometrics , socioeconomics , economic growth , mathematics , sociology , market economy , social science , discrete mathematics
This paper presents results of an examination of poverty in Poland in the 1980s. The individual welfare measure is expenditure on consumption per equivalent adult. Household equivalence scales are estimated using a quasi‐exact scales trans logarithmic model. Four poverty indices are calculated. These are intended to capture the following aspects of poverty: (1) incidence, (2) relative deprivation, acid (3) social ability to eliminate poverty by income transfers. The study revealed significant changes in poverty during the investigated period, from 9 to 30 percent with persistent poverty resulting for pensioners, farmers and low educated persons.