PPT-Part 3, Chapter 7: Dimensions Poverty and Inequality in the World: Non-income dimensions

Poverty and Inequality in the World Nonincome dimensions Martin Ravallion Georgetown University course ECON 156 Poverty Lecture notes to accompany Ravallions The Economics of Poverty. e B57727 1108 P6b4hed b 5he Sc1554h G17e30e05 N17ebe3 2008 F635he3 c12e4 a3e a7aabe f31 Nc1e R10ad A3ea 2F Vc513a Q6a Ed0b63gh EH6 6QQ 0131 244 0064 Nc1e310ad4c15a0dg4g176k The 5ex5 2age4 1f 5h4 d1c6e05 a3e 2305ed 10 3ecced 2a2e3 a0d a3e 100 3eccabe …income, poverty and wealth. Chapter 6. The Population. of the UK. A different view of life in the United Kingdom. by Danny Dorling and Benjamin D. Hennig. Figure 6.1. Inequality…income, poverty and wealth. st. century policy. Branko. . Milanovic. March 2011. Email: . bmilanovic@worldbank.org. Based on the book . Worlds Apart. , 2005 . and . The Haves and the Have-Nots. , 2010 and other . updates. Main points. Key Trends. I. Welfare Programs are Based on Economic Self-Sufficiency. In the United States, employment is the primary pathway out of poverty for most-non-elderly adults. . Most of the American poor are in households headed by working age adults. . SDGs. serious? . Gabriele . Köhler. Senior Research Associate, UNRISD, Geneva. www.gabrielekoehler.net. . 1.) Poverty, inequality, global justice . Income poverty ($1,25). 3. Source: Ortiz and Cummins. 2011. . Measuring and Understanding the Ravages of Inequality . Defining Poverty. Poverty can be defined, in a very broad sense, as a general scarcity or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions and/or money.. “The federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won”. Ronald Reagan, Former President of the United States, . State of the Union Message, 1988.  . “. There was never a war on poverty. . Dr Max Price. Vice-Chancellor. University of Cape Town. OUTLINE. Examine trends post-apartheid (since 1994). Income inequality. Overall, by race, by gender. Poverty . Overall, by race, by gender. Composition of income and impact of social grants. This is the Irish Government's definition of poverty in its . National Action Plan for Social Inclusion 2007-2016. . . What it means is that people are living in poverty if they do not have enough money to do the things that most people in Ireland take for granted. Poverty can mean not having the money to buy enough food for your family, not being able to afford to heat your home in winter or having to buy second-hand clothes because you can't afford new ones. . Jeffrey Frankel. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation & Growth. Harvard . University. Clair Wilcox Lecture. Swarthmore . College, October . 24, 2016. 1. Who was Clair Wilcox?. T. aught . at Swarthmore from 1927 to 1968. class. and . status. How popular myths about . human nature . and . capabilities. are used to justify inequality. How we can tackle inequality and why it is vital we do so if we are to make the . transition to sustainable wellbeing. Martin . Ravallion. . Georgetown University ECON 156: Poverty and Inequality. Lecture notes to accompany . Ravallion’s. . The Economics of Poverty.. 2. . 5. Measuring inequality. (EOP Ch.5). . Issues to be . addressed by the HLEG subgroup on income and wealth inequality. Thomas . Piketty. Paris School of Economics. OECD, . January 16. th. 2014. « W. ork. under the “income and wealth inequality” theme would take stock 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. .