The authors note that poverty assessments are of central importance when forming policies wold-wide. After briefly describing the economy and politics of Uruguay, they look at issues in conceptualizing and measuring privation and report on the development of poverty in Montevideo under two...

Poverty assessments are generally based on data, a poverty line and a method of aggregating income of the poor households. In this paper the authors use the household income survey conducted for 1988 in China. They show that poverty status in the country has a clear spatial dimension. Poverty is...