Abstract

A poverty line defines a level of income below which a person or household with that income is considered to be experiencing poverty. The Low-Income Cut-Off (LICO) is one of the oldest poverty lines in use in Canada, providing us with data back to 1976. This makes it useful for showing long-term trends. Statistics Canada uses a version of the LICO that measures poverty after accounting for income transfers to measure the percentage of Canadians experiencing poverty. I will call this the poverty rate.

Details

Title
HSP-84 Social Policy Trends - Poverty Reduction: policy initiatives or economic growth?
Author
Kneebone, Ronald
Section
Communiqués
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
University of Calgary, The School of Public Policy
ISSN
25608320
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2560091289
Copyright
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