Four Poverty
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Nick Axford
Abstract
This chapter discusses the concept of property and different approaches to measure it. Poverty is defined as poor living standards owing to deficient resources. Children are poor if, because their family’s income is inadequate, they cannot enjoy the goods, services and activities that most children in the society concerned take for granted. Two ideas cut across all of the poverty measures described in the chapter. The first is the distinction between the poverty rate — the number of people who are poor against a specified standard; and the poverty gap — the aggregate shortfall of income of all the poor from the selected poverty line. The second important idea is equivalisation.
Abstract
This chapter discusses the concept of property and different approaches to measure it. Poverty is defined as poor living standards owing to deficient resources. Children are poor if, because their family’s income is inadequate, they cannot enjoy the goods, services and activities that most children in the society concerned take for granted. Two ideas cut across all of the poverty measures described in the chapter. The first is the distinction between the poverty rate — the number of people who are poor against a specified standard; and the poverty gap — the aggregate shortfall of income of all the poor from the selected poverty line. The second important idea is equivalisation.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables iv
- Acknowledgements vi
- Introduction 1
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Defining child well-being
- Need 15
- Rights 29
- Poverty 45
- Quality of life 59
- Social exclusion 73
- Relationships between the concepts 89
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Measuring child well-being
- Child well-being through different lenses 113
- Relationships between the conditions 131
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Implications for children’s services
- Matching conditions and service styles 141
- Developing congruent children’s services 159
- Conclusions 171
- Method 185
- Logistic regression 209
- The 60 variables 213
- Additional results 219
- References 227
- Index 259
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables iv
- Acknowledgements vi
- Introduction 1
-
Defining child well-being
- Need 15
- Rights 29
- Poverty 45
- Quality of life 59
- Social exclusion 73
- Relationships between the concepts 89
-
Measuring child well-being
- Child well-being through different lenses 113
- Relationships between the conditions 131
-
Implications for children’s services
- Matching conditions and service styles 141
- Developing congruent children’s services 159
- Conclusions 171
- Method 185
- Logistic regression 209
- The 60 variables 213
- Additional results 219
- References 227
- Index 259
