What is it about?
Poverty is an important socioeconomic problem. This article examines how officially recorded poor people perceive themselves and the causes of their poverty. It is based on a sample of 531 officially recorded poor people living in the Turkish province of Çankiri. A questionnaire was administered comprising 69 characteristics of poverty.
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Why is it important?
Governments adopt policies to prevent and address the socioeconomic problem of poverty.The study differs from other poverty perception studies in terms of focusing sampling. Since the aim of the study is to understand the perceptions of officially recorded poor individuals in Turkey, they constitute the sampling frame.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has perception of officially recorded poor people living in the Turkish province of Çankiri, and the study fully differs from previous studies sampling recorded poor people.
Harun yakışık
Cankiri Karatekin Universitesi
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This page is a summary of: A New Scale of Poverty: How the Officially Recorded Poor People in Turkey Perceive Themselves, Development Policy Review, September 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12225.
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