Income, deprivation, and social exclusion: toward a comprehensive poverty measurement in Hong Kong

European Measures of Income, Poverty, and Social Exclusion: Recent Developments and Lessons for U.s. Poverty Measurement Professional Practice

As this volume is going to press, the U.S. government seems poised to make the first major changes in the official poverty measure in more than 40 years.1 The official measure was initially formulated in 1963 by Mollie Orshansky of the Social Security Administration, who had been asked to develop a gauge of economic need that could provide data useful to the War on Poverty. Orshansky created th...

Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana

Childhood Poverty and Psychological Health of Youths in Hong Kong: Mentoring as a Social Capital Intervention

Towards a Credible Poverty Framework: From Income Poverty to Deprivation

There have always been differences of view on what poverty means in conceptual terms, and even greater differences on how to measure it. These differences span a broad spectrum of normative and ideological positions and raise a number of technical issues surrounding the statistical measurement of poverty. This paper explains the role of poverty research and the value of a poverty line, while ac...

Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Integration in Hong Kong

Eighty-three regular class teachers drawn from five primary schools in Hong Kong responded to a survey measuring how they felt about integrating students with disabilities into their regular classes. At the time of the study, two of the schools were implementing a policy of integration set out by the Hong Kong Education Department. Results indicated that preparation for integration was signific...