Child Poverty Measurement in the UK: Assessing Support for the Downgrading of Income-Based Poverty Measures
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-018-1880-9
Abstract: In 2016 the UK’s Conservative Government radically changed the official approach to child poverty measurement, scrapping targets for income poverty and material deprivation and introducing instead indicators of household ‘worklessness’ and children’s educational attainment at… read more here.
Keywords: child poverty; income; poverty measurement; support ... See more keywords
Including services in multidimensional poverty measurement for SDGs: modifications to the consensual approach
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DOI: 10.1332/175982720x15850580703755
Abstract: Poor households disproportionately lack access to services, yet this is rarely considered in poverty measures. Service provision can vary significantly between and within countries, and so similar levels of household resources may translate to very… read more here.
Keywords: poverty measurement; multidimensional poverty; poverty measures; consensual approach ... See more keywords