RESOURCES, DEPRIVATION, AND POVERTY by Brian Nolan, Christopher T. Whelan ( 9780198287858 )

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RESOURCES, DEPRIVATION, AND POVERTY

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ISBN 10:

0198287852

ISBN 13:

9780198287858

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 May, 1996

Pages:

272

Description:

The core issue of this book is how to define and measure poverty in relatively rich countries in a way which is valid, meaningful in the context, and valuable for policy-making. The authors concentrate on the identification of the poor, rather than the subsequent aggregation of the statistics to derive an overall index of poverty - which is the focus of most recent literature. They show that poverty in developed countries cannot be understood andmeasured simply using current income. Those who are excluded from participation in society can be more accurately identified if broader measures of resources and direct idicators of deprivation are used. The issues are illustrated by data from a specially designed survey of a large representative sample of Irishhouseholds.

Synopsis:

Poverty alleviation is a central aim of economic and social policy, and yet there is no consensus about what poverty means or how it is best measured. Often, the households below an income poverty line are counted as poor, but there may be no firm basis for concentrating on that particular income level. There may also be wide variations among the households below any income poverty line in terms of their actual living standards. This book explores what poverty means in developed countries, and shows that understanding and measuring it requires widening the focus beyond curent income. By using broader measures of resources and information on living patterns and concrete indicators of deprivation, it shows how those who are effectively excluded from participation in society due to a lack of resources can be more accurately identified, and the processes producing such exclusion better understood. The core issue of this book is how to define and measure poverty in relatively rich countries in a way which is valid, meaningful in the context, and valuable for policy-making.Extensive tables of data from a specially designed survey of a large representative sample of Irish households are used to illustrate this issue.

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Clarendon Press

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