PPT-‘The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’

Austerity Government Economic Policy and Recovery Philip Thomas Formerly Professor Institute of Philosophy Diversity amp Mental Health University of Central Lancashire Consultant Psychiatrist Bradford District Care Trust. ECO23/PSY23 Behavioral Economics. Udayan. Roy. A Behavioral Economics Approach to the Poor. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. By . Sendhil. . Mullainathan. and . Eldar. . Shafir. , Times Books, 2013. ESRC. Overview. Poverty traps and adaptive preferences: beyond conventional accounts of deprivation and disadvantage. . The design of pro-poor interventions. . . Poverty Traps: Two views . Abhijit. Banerjee and Esther . Duflo. The “received view” of poverty:. Poverty is primarily about hunger:. Almost all public assistance programs globally concern the distribution of food. In the global consciousness, poverty and hunger are synonymous.. Bobby . Ramakant. , Rachael Thomson. STOP . TB Partnership TB . and Poverty Subgroup. Poverty and health: the links. Increased Personal and Environmental Risks. Increased Malnutrition. Less Access to Knowledge, information. Why is it Important to Define Poverty?. How we choose to define poverty and the causes of poverty will directly impact how we conceptualize development and solutions to poverty. It also defines the reasons why we choose to be involved in poverty alleviation efforts.. Elisabetta Aurino. Partnership for Child Development. Imperial College London. & University of Oxford. Recalling unidimensional approach?. Limits – spell out. Problems with unidimensional approach. Elisabetta Aurino. Partnership for Child Development. Imperial College London. & University of Oxford. Learning outcomes for this session. Importance of measurement for policy. Conceptual differences in the measurement of poverty, well-being and inequality. Lorenz Curve of Absolute Inequality. % of. Nat’l income. % of pop. 0 20 40 60 80 100. 100. 80. 60. 40. 20. 0. Gini coefficient (income). ’62 .8. ’95 .87. Gudrais, E.(2008)UnequalAmerica:Causes and consequences. joanna.d.barnes@live.com. Agenda. Reflect. Learn. Experience. Question. Reflect. Points of reflection. What personal biases . about families in poverty do I have?. What different expectations do I have for . In 2007 more than 37 million people or 12.5% of the population fell below the official poverty thresholds “poverty line.” in 2007 the line was set at an income of $20,650 for a family of four. Critics regard poverty criteria to be quite conservative and believe measures should be set 25% higher. . POVERTY….. BY ST.VINCENTS HIGH SCHOOL. POVERTY IN INDIA…. DEFINATION OF POVERTY… Poverty in India can be defined as a situation when a certain section of people are unable to fulfill their basic needs. India has the world's largest number of poor people living in a single country. Extreme poverty, lack of opportunity for gainful employment and intermittency of income and low standards of living are the main reasons for the wide prevalence of child labour. Though it is possible to identify child labour in the organized sector, which form a minuscule of the total child labour, the problem relates mainly to the unorganized sector where utmost attention needs to be paid. The problem is universal but in our case it is more crucial.  M. Paul Lewis. God and Language Forum. September 28 – October 1 2020. Deus loquens. Language is pervasive. . Used to . communicate . thoughts. , feelings, wishes, fears, and perhaps, most . fundamentally . Martin Ravallion. . Georgetown University course ECON 156: Poverty and Inequality. Lecture notes to accompany . Ravallion’s. . The Economics of Poverty. Persistent shocks + chronic poverty. Continuing threat of . Recap and Conclusions. Martin . Ravallion. Georgetown University. (Reading: EOP Conclusions). Recap. The course has introduce you to the main past and present . debates about poverty and inequality in the world. .