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Poverty

Poverty

Paul Spicker | Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón | David Gordon

(2008)

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Abstract

This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional and complex nature of this social condition. This revised edition includes a range of new entries to keep pace with an expanding field of discourse, an extended set of references, and further perspectives from developing countries. A particular effort has been made to incorporate non-Western approaches and concepts.
Paul Spicker is Grampian Chair of Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, and Director of the Centre for Public Policy and Management. He has worked as a consultant for a range of agencies in social welfare provision. His research includes studies of poverty, need, disadvantage, and service delivery and he has published twelve books and over sixty academic papers in this field. His most recent title is Policy Analysis for Practice (2006). Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón is Associate Professor of Urban Anthropology in the Faculty of Humanities, National University of Salta, Argentina. She specializes in social policies, segregation, exclusion, and poverty and history of social policies in Argentina, and has published several articles on these issues. David Gordon is Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, at the University of Bristol. He has researched and published in the fields of the scientific measurement of poverty, crime and poverty, childhood disability, area-based anti-poverty measures, the causal effects of poverty on ill health, housing policy and rural poverty. He has published extensively in the field, and his latest title is Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain: The Millennium Survey (2006).
'An indispensable guide ... Spicker's final chapter is a masterly review of the subject.' David Donnison, University of Glasgow 'Surprisingly compact, this succinct lexicon explains over 200 technical terms that the student or practitioner of international development should aim to be able to quote verbatim. Overall, the Glossary contains concise and enlightening explanations, like "Fourth World", referring to chronically deprived communities in developed countries, and definitions of poverty in Islam and the Arab world. This second edition also invites Latin American scholars to the editorial board, both to highlight the variance in poverty definitions around the world, and to challenge, as the foreword acknowledges, the first edition's exclusively Western paradigm...the Glossary illustrates the scope of poverty analysis and, with its thorough referencing, both directs and impels the reader to further study.' New Agriculturalist

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover cover
Contents v
Editorial board viii
Contributors ix
About CROP x
Introducing the glossary 1
Notes 4
Glossary 5
ABSOLUTE POVERTY 7
ADMINISTRATIVE POVERTY 9
AMENITIES 9
ARABIC (TRADITIONAL) DEFINITIONS OF POVERTY 10
AREA DEPRIVATION 10
ASSET VULNERABILITY FRAMEWORK 11
AUSTRALIAN DEFINITIONS OF POVERTY 13
AXIOM OF MONOTONICITY; AXIOM OF TRANSFERS 15
BASIC INCOME 16
BASIC NEEDS 17
BASIC SECURITY (SECURITY OF EXISTENCE) 19
BEGGING 20
BEVERIDGE SCHEME 21
BISMARCKIAN SOCIAL INSURANCE 22
BRAZILIAN DEFINITIONS OF POVERTY 22
BUDGET STANDARDS 23
CALORIE–INCOME ELASTICITY (CIE) 26
CAPABILITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS 26
CHARITY 27
CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY 29
CHILD MALNUTRITION 30
CHILD MORTALITY 31
CHILD POVERTY 32
CHINESE DEFINITIONS OF POVERTY 34
CHRONIC POVERTY 36
CLASS 36
COMMAND OVER RESOURCES 37
CONDITIONALITY 37
CONSENSUAL METHODS 38
CONSUMPTION 40
CONTEXTUAL POVERTY 42
CONVERSION CAPACITY 43
CULTURE OF POVERTY 43
CYCLE OF DEPRIVATION 45
DEPENDENCY 46
DEPENDENCY CULTURE 47
DEPENDENCY THEORY 47
DEPRIVATION 49
DESERVING POOR 50
DESTITUTION 51
DEVELOPMENT 51
DIRECT AND INDIRECT MEASURES OF POVERTY 53
DISABILITY AND POVERTY 56
DISADVANTAGE 59
DISQUALIFICATION (LA DISQUALIFICATION SOCIALE) 59
DISWELFARE 60
ECONOMIC DEFINITIONS OF POVERTY 61
ECONOMIC DISTANCE 62
EMPOWERMENT 63
ENGEL COEFFICIENT 64
ENTITLEMENT 65
EQUALITY 65
EQUIVALENCE SCALES 67
EUROPEAN RELATIVE INCOME STANDARD OF POVERTY 70
EUROPEAN UNION DEFINITION OF POVERTY 71
EXCLUSION 72
EXPLANATIONS FOR POVERTY 74
EXTENDED POVERTY MINIMUM 75
EXTREME POVERTY 75
FAMILY WAGE 76
FAMINE 77
FEMALE POVERTY 77
FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY 78
FOOD SHORTAGES 80
FOSTER, GREER AND THORBECKE (FGT) INDEX 81
FOURTH WORLD 83
FUEL POVERTY 84
GENDER DIVISION OF LABOUR 85
GENETIC EXPLANATIONS 86
GINI COEFFICIENT 87
GNP PER CAPITA 88
HEAD-COUNT RATIO OR HEAD-COUNT INDEX H 90
HEALTH AND POVERTY 91
HOMELESSNESS 92
HOUSING 92
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 93
HUMAN POVERTY INDEX (HPI) 94
HUMAN RIGHTS AND POVERTY 94
IMPOVERISHMENT 97
INCENTIVES TO WORK 98
INCOME 100
INCOME DISTRIBUTION 101
INCOME ELASTICITY OF THE POVERTY LINE 102
INCOME INELASTICITY OF DEMAND 103
INCOME MAINTENANCE 104
INCOME SMOOTHING 105
INDICATORS 106
INDICES OF DEPRIVATION 106
INDIGENCE 107
INFORMAL SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY 108
INSERTION 109
INSTITUTIONAL WELFARE 110
INTEGRATED POVERTY (PAUVRETÉ INTÉGRÉE) 110
INTEGRATED POVERTY LINE 110
INTERGENERATIONAL CONTINUITY 111
INTERNATIONAL AID 111
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT DEFINITIONS OF POVERTY 113
INTRA-HOUSEHOLD TRANSFERS 114
INVERSE CARE LAW 115
ISLAMIC DEFINITIONS OF POVERTY 116
KUZNETS INVERTED U CURVE; KUZNETS RATIO 118
LAEKEN INDICATORS 119
LANDLESSNESS 120
LESS ELIGIBILITY 121
LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT STUDY 122
LOW INCOME CUT-OFFS 123
LUXEMBOURG INCOME STUDY; LUXEMBOURG EMPLOYMENT STUDY 124
MALAWI POVERTY PROFILE 126
MALNUTRITION 126
MARGINALITY 128
MATERNAL MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY 130
MEANS-TESTING 131
MIGRATION AND POVERTY 132
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS 134
MINIMUM INCOME STANDARDS 137
NEEDS 138
NEO-PHILANTHROPY 139
NEW POOR 140
NON-CONTRIBUTORY BENEFITS 141
NORMATIVE STANDARDS 141
OVERALL POVERTY 143
OVERCROWDING 144
PARTICIPATION 145
PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH 146
PAUPERISM 147
PHILANTHROPY 149
PHILIPPINES DEFINITION OF POVERTY 150
POOR LAW 151
POSITIONAL GOODS 152
POVERTY DOMINANCE 153
POVERTY GAP 154
POVERTY GAP INDEX (PGI) 155
POVERTY LINE 156
POVERTY PRODUCTION 156
POVERTY PROFILE 158
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPERS 159
POVERTY TRAP 160
POWER\r 161
PRECARIOUS LABOUR 161
PRECARIOUSNESS 163
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY POVERTY 163
PROBLEM FAMILIES 165
REDISTRIBUTION 167
RELATIVE DEPRIVATION 167
RELATIVE POVERTY 169
RESIDUAL WELFARE 170
RIGHTS 170
RURAL POVERTY 171
SAFETY NETS 173
SCIENTIFIC DEFINITIONS OF POVERTY 175
SECONDARY WORKERS 176
SECURITY 177
SELECTIVITY 178
SEN INDEX 179
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE 180
SOCIAL CAPITAL 180
SOCIAL DISTANCE 182
SOCIAL ECONOMY 183
SOCIAL INSURANCE 184
SOCIAL PROTECTION 185
SOCIAL SECURITY 185
SOLIDARITY 186
SPEENHAMLAND SYSTEM 188
SQUATTING 189
STANDARD FOOD BASKET 190
STIGMA 191
STREET CHILDREN 192
STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT 193
STRUCTURAL DEPENDENCY 194
STRUCTURAL POVERTY 195
SUB-EMPLOYMENT 197
SUB-PROLETARIAT 198
SUBJECTIVE POVERTY LINES 198
SUBSISTENCE 201
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES 202
TARGETING 204
TIP-CURVES 205
TOTALLY FUZZY AND RELATIVE (TFR) POVERTY MEASURES 206
UBN–PL METHOD 208
UNDERCLASS 209
UNDEREMPLOYMENT 209
UNEMPLOYMENT 210
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA POVERTY LINE 212
URBAN SEGREGATION 214
VAGRANCY 217
VOICE 217
VULNERABILITY 218
WEB OF DEPRIVATION 220
WELFARE 220
WELFARE HOUSING 221
WELFARE RIGHTS 222
WELFARE STATE 223
WORKFARE 226
WORKHOUSE; WORKHOUSE TEST 226
WORLD BANK POVERTY LINES 227
Definitions of poverty: twelve clusters of meaning 229
Index 244