OFFICIAL MEASUREMENTS SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERESTIMATE EXTENT AND SEVERITY OF POVERTY IN TURKEY, NEW LEVY STUDY SAYS
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.— By not incorporating the household production time required to carry out basic activities such as caring for children or elderly parents, official poverty measures in Turkey significantly underestimate the number of people living in poverty and the severity of their deprivation, argues a new report from the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. …