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In recent years, scholars and policy-makers have developed alternative measures of "poverty" that look at a range of issues in measuring human well-being beyond the simpler economic "poverty line."
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none;">By Fred Kammer, S.J.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none;">In recent years, scholars and policy-makers have developed alternative measures of "poverty" that look at a range of issues in measuring human well-being beyond the simpler economic "poverty line." While there are a variety of such measures, the one that gained acceptance internationally is the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Human Development Report</em> and its Human Development Index adopted by the United Nations Development Program in 1990.[1] The focus is more on the "human development' than 'poverty,' drawing on the work of economist Mahbub ul Haq at the World Bank in the 1970s. </p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none;">...Dr. Haq argued that <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">existing measures of human progress failed to account for the true purpose of development-to improve people's lives.</em> In particular, he believed that the commonly used measure of Gross Domestic Product failed to adequately measure well-being.[2] <a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/sites/loyno.edu.jsri/files/The%20Kids%20Count%20Gulf%20South_0.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 32px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: url(http://www.loyno.edu/assets/shared/images/css/icons/pdf.gif) 100% 50% no-repeat transparent;">MORE>></a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none;">In recent years, scholars and policy-makers have developed alternative measures of "poverty" that look at a range of issues in measuring human well-being beyond the simpler economic "poverty line." While there are a variety of such measures, the one that gained acceptance internationally is the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Human Development Report</em> and its Human Development Index adopted by the United Nations Development Program in 1990.[1] The focus is more on the "human development' than 'poverty,' drawing on the work of economist Mahbub ul Haq at the World Bank in the 1970s. </p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none;">...Dr. Haq argued that <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">existing measures of human progress failed to account for the true purpose of development-to improve people's lives.</em> In particular, he believed that the commonly used measure of Gross Domestic Product failed to adequately measure well-being.[2] <a href="https://jsri.loyno.edu/sites/loyno.edu.jsri/files/The%20Kids%20Count%20Gulf%20South_0.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 32px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: url(http://www.loyno.edu/assets/shared/images/css/icons/pdf.gif) 100% 50% no-repeat transparent;">MORE>></a></p>