PPT-What is poverty? "People are living in poverty if their income and resources (material,

This is the Irish Governments definition of poverty in its National Action Plan for Social Inclusion 20072016 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 secondhand clothes because you cant afford new ones . Xavier . Mancero. Statistics Division, ECLAC. Seminar on poverty measurement. Geneva, 5-6 May 2015. Background. Income provides an incomplete assessment of living standards. . Possible bias characterizing poverty . Reduce the number of people living on less that $1.25 per day by half. Reduce the number of people who live in hunger by half. Guarantee stable employment. What do we want to achieve?. What have we already achieved?. ?. . Graham Whitham. Graham_whitham@hotmail.co.uk. @. GrahamWhitham. For Radical Statistics Conference, 8. th. March 2014, Manchester.. Overview. Relative poverty as a concept. Child poverty targets. Minimum Household Energy need. Robert Thornton. Research Associate. Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice. Introduction. Research by the VPSJ on behalf of the SVP. How the cost of a Minimum Essential Standard of Living (MESL) is impacted by the energy efficiency of a household’s dwelling. What is Poverty?. Poverty. is the lack of essential items . needed . to support the . basic needs . for . a human life. .. B. asic human needs . include: . 1) . security . and safety . 2. ) . water . 1. Developed by. : . Jan Maples, Renée Daugherty, and Dave . Shideler. Oklahoma . Cooperative . Extension Service/Oklahoma . State University.  . Prepared with support from: . Rachel . Welborn. and. Tori Foreman, MSW. Outreach Coordinator. Court Improvement Program . Poverty Defined. Poverty.  . is . the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor.. 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. Photo Credit: . Quinn . Dombrowski. , Flickr CC. PERSISTENT POVERTY . Statistics Canada: 1 in 7 Canadians live below the poverty line. UNICEF: 13% children, ranking Canada 24 in a list of 35 developed countries. Practice: HDI Development. Poverty Prediction Questions. Which TWO population groups are most vulnerable to effects of global poverty? . Name 2 challenges facing children living in poverty. Name a medical . 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. 17. th. October 2011. . In simple words, we can say that Eradication of poverty means to eliminate or remove or erase poverty. If we eradicate poverty through various means then we can create equality. AcknowledgmentsJessica SemegaMelissa Kollar prepared the income section of this report under the direction of Jonathan L. Rothbaum, Chief of the Income Statistics Branch. John Creamer prepared the po 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 .