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The definition of poverty

19 Jan 2009

The author of this study has worked independently and the opinions expressed are therefore his own, and do not necessarily refl ect the opinions of the board of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. [...] On presented as the best attempt to date the contrary, it is an examination of our to navigate between the transience of understanding of poverty that fi nds serious relative measures and the elusiveness fl aws in the way it is currently measured of a universal absolute defi nition. [...] Concern for poverty is a sign that the However, it would be a mistake to assume people of Canada feel compassion for fellow that any one test is a direct measurement of citizens and want to give everyone a ‘fair g, and this is where an analoge to poverty go.’ However, as we will see, much of the measurement can be drawn. [...] The key questions have The Importance of Focus been whether poverty is an absolute or a relative concept, and whether it should be Poor focus leads to solving the wrong measured by the income, expenditure, or problem, and solving the wrong problem consumption of those alleged to be in on in public policy inevitably leads to making poverty. [...] The confl ation tomorrow, this defi nition would still identify of equality and poverty is seen in the the same number of people in poverty.
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Authors

Seymour, David

Pages
11
Published in
Canada

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