Course Description
Although the US has experienced significant growth in its history, poverty has remained high at around 15 percent of the population. This seminar course will focus on poverty in the US and in the rest of the world (RoW). How the poverty line in the US is set and what data are used to estimate poverty in the US will be presented, and contrasted with relative poverty methodology in Europe and $1 per person per day poverty in the developing world.
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