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Gini Coefficient –

measure of income inequality
G=0 – perfect equality
G≈1 – max inequality
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Слайд 5Charles Booth
1840-1916
Labour & Life of the People
1886-1903
The Condition of the Working Class

in England 1845
Слайд 7To maximize profit &
compensate inefficient organization of production business tend to minimize

wages
Слайд 10Poverty can provoke social disorder

Слайд 11Poverty reduces chances of children for development and achievement

Слайд 12East End
3400 streets
Survey
Research and policy questions:
Who are the poor (how do we

define poverty)?
Who became poor?
Who are responsible for the position of the poor?
What is to be done?
Слайд 13School Board Visitors as guides
Volunteers who helped to check if children attended

school
Слайд 18A - lowest class - some occasional labourers, street-sellers, loafers, criminals and

semi-criminals - 1.25%
B – casual earnings - very poor – 11.2%
С – intermittent earnings - 8.3%
the “poor”- 35,2%
D – small regular earnings - 14.5 %
E - artisans and regular wage-earners - 42%
G – lower middle – 3.9 %
H – upper middle – 5%
Invented “poverty line” concept – 1 GBP = food, housing, clothing + basic spending
Слайд 23Benjamin S. Rowntree
Poverty, A Study of Town Life (1901)
POVERTY LINE DEFINITION by

Rowntree
Minimum physical efficiency of a worker
Food: idealized adequate diet suggested by contemporary physicians
+
2) Expenditures on housing (rent)
+
3) Everyday expenditures (clothing, fluel. etc.)
= min income = poverty line
Actual income
Regular earnings
Rent
Incidental earnings
Platt 2014 Poverty Studies and Social Research
Слайд 24Primary = absolute poverty
Lack of fundamental requirements for human existence (9,9 %

of York population)
Secondary = relative poverty
Inability to meet overall standards of living that prevails in a given society
(27,8 % of York population)
Poverty is a mismatch between family income & family needs
Poverty is caused not by lack of household management but by lack of income
(Platt 2014 Poverty Studies and Social Research )
Слайд 25Absolute & relative poverty
Basic needs VS. comparatives disadvantage

Слайд 26Rowntree. Poverty: A Study of Town Life, 1902, p.137
Poverty & Lifecycle

Слайд 27SOCIETY AT A GLANCE 2011:
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EU definition of

poverty
Poor - household living on or below 60% (earlier 50%) of median income
Слайд 29Income inequality among squirrels ;)

Слайд 32POVERTY REMAINS WIDESPRED
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2011
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Слайд 35Absolute & relative poverty
Basic needs VS. comparative disadvantage
