ABSOLUTE&RELATIVE POVERTY
- Created by: Max Ward
- Created on: 11-05-15 18:43
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- POVERTY DEFINTIONS
- Relative
- Poor in relation to another group (Defined by income or opinion of others)
- Disadv's of this defintion
- Are we actually measuring poverty and not inequality?
- Not definte
- No comparisons possible
- Advantages of this Definition
- It works over time as it is Culturally Bound
- Spots those who society regard as poor. (It means what we want it to mean.
- Government: 60% Median Income
- 60% is an approximate figure
- Mack and Lansley / Gordon et Al.
- Survey population to establish items that are considered necessary and those who don't have them are poor.
- How many items should you lack to be poor?
- Should items at 50% be valued the same as ones at 99%
- Survey population to establish items that are considered necessary and those who don't have them are poor.
- TOWNSEND
- Assign a deprivation score by seeing which of the 12 items chosen a person doesnt have.
- His values, no choice, where do you draw the poverty line?
- Assign a deprivation score by seeing which of the 12 items chosen a person doesnt have.
- Absolute
- Not having the necessities for a healthy life
- Advantages of this definition
- Fixed Point
- Compare Times
- Can check welfare to check adequacy
- Compare Societies
- Disadv's of this defintion
- In developed societies poverty is defined out of existence
- Cultural Poverty?
- Drewnowski
- "Healthy" Changes
- ROWNTREE
- Selects "necessities" and calculated how much was needed to buy them
- Assumes a No Waste Budget/ Based on his opinions/ Quality/ Quantity
- REGIONAL VARIATIONS - London needs more money, N/S divide etc.
- BRADSHAW
- Get nutrition specialists to calculate food necessary.
- The role of the expert isn't how normal people live.
- REGIONAL VARIATIONS - London needs more money, N/S divide etc.
- Relative
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