Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences
Year: 2018, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-9
Review Article
Mahendra M Reddy1, Kalaiselvi Selvaraj2, Sonali Sarkar3*
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, SDUAHER, Kolar
2. Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry
3. Additional Professor, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India.
*Corresponding Author
E-mail: [email protected]
Poverty leading to ill-health and ill-health pushing people to poverty is a vicious cycle. Measure-ment of poverty is important in any country as a large share of finance allocation is dependent on the number of poor people living in that respective state or region. In most of the countries poverty is expressed only in terms of proportion which says how many of them are poor with respect to the poverty line. Not much effort is actually made to express or derive further important measures which could help in giving the exact picture of poor people in the country. There are different measures which are deduced based on absolute poverty line starting from the simple measures such as poverty headcount ratio to robust measures such as Watt’s index. This article mainly emphasizes on the practical issues to be considered before measuring the poverty line and also it critically appraises the available common measures of poverty.
Keywords: Poverty, Poverty line, Poverty gap
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