Counting the Poor New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States

by Besharov, Douglas J.; Couch, Kenneth A.

• ISBN13: 9780199932948
• ISBN10: 0199932948
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2012-06-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Douglas J. Besharov, JD, is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.

Kenneth A. Couch, PhD, is Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Douglas J. Besharov and Kenneth A. Couch

Part I. European Measures of Income, Poverty, and Inequality

2. The OECD Approach to Measuring Income Distribution and Poverty
Michael F. F?rster and Marco Mira d'Ercole

3. Income Indicators for the EU's Social Inclusion Strategy
Isabelle Maquet and David Stanton

4. Deconstructing European Poverty Measures
Richard V. Burkhauser

Part II. Broadening Measures of Income and Other Financial Resources

5. Accounting for the Distributional Effects of Non-cash Public Benefits
Holly Sutherland and Panos Tsakloglou

6. Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows
Joachim R. Frick and Markus M. Grabka

7. Accounting for Employee Benefits
Neil Gilbert

8. Impressionistic Realism: A European Focus on U.S. Poverty Measurement
David S. Johnson

Part III. Income Levels for Social Assistance and their Behavioral Effects

9. Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries
Herwig Immervoll

10. Social Assistance Schemes in Developing Countries
Margaret Grosh, Carlo del Ninno, and Emil Tesliuc

11. Europe's Other Poverty Measures: Absolute Thresholds Underlying Social Assistance
Richard Bavier

Part IV. Non-Income Monetary Measures

12. Asset-Based Measurement of Poverty
Andrea Brandolini, Silvia Magri, and Timothy M. Smeeding

13. Consumption-Based Measures in Developing Nations: Lessons from Brazil
Peter Lanjouw

14. Alternatives to Income-Based Measures of Poverty
Kenneth A. Couch

Part V. Multi-Dimensional Measures

15. Developing and Learning from EU Measures of Social Inclusion
Eric Marlier, Bea Cantillon, Brian Nolan, Karel Van den Bosch, and Tim Van Rie

16. Using Non-Monetary Deprivation Indicators to Analyze European Poverty and Social Exclusion
Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan

17. Poverty Redefined as Low Consumption and Low Wealth, Not Just Low Income: Psychological Consequences in Australia and Germany
Bruce Headey, Peter Krause, and Gert G. Wagner

18. Anomalies in European Measures of Poverty and Social Exclusion
Neil Gilbert

Part VI. Conclusion

19. New Comparative Measures of Income, Material Deprivation, and Well-Being
Timothy M. Smeeding