Poverty in Canada / by Christopher A. Sarlo.
"This book is a challenge to current approaches to defining and measuring poverty. It argues that prevailing estimates greatly exaggerate the number of poor: that Statistics Canada's low income cut-off, the standard tool used in virtually all studies measuring poverty, is badly flawed and that social assistance, in almost all cases, is perfectly adequate in covering all basic needs. The author develops an alternative approach to defining and measuring poverty - one based on the cost of necessities. He argues that this basic needs approach gives us a more relevant and useful distinction between the poor and non poor." --back cover
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- ISBN: 9780889751439 :
- ISBN: 0889751439 :
- Physical Description: xviii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Vancouver : Fraser Institute, 1992.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-232) and index. |
Action Note: | Committed to retain 20170101 20321231 COPPUL SPAN Monograph |
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Subject: | Poor > Canada. Poor > Canada > Statistics. Poor > Canada > Statistics. Poverty > Canada > Statistics. Canada > Social conditions > 1971-1991 > Statistics. Canada > Economic conditions > 1991- > Statistics. |
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