ERC Starting Grant · 2021
The Experience of Poverty in the Post-Industrial Economy
The reduction of poverty is of societal importance. After advances in the study of poverty in the late 20th century, however, most high-income countries have settled on an annual measure of household income as their primary measure of poverty. In contrast, ExpPov argues that shifting socio-economic conditions in recent decades necessitate a new conceptual approach for understanding poverty and a new methodological framework for the collection of data related to the experience of poverty. Specifically, ExpPov confronts four central tenants of poverty research. First, in contrast to national or regional investigations of poverty, ExpPov proposes that the geographic distribution of poverty…
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