Poverty An International Glossary, Second Edition

by Spicker, Paul; Leguizamon, Sonia Alverez; Gordon, David

• ISBN13: 9781842778234
• ISBN10: 1842778234
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-15
• Publisher: Zed Books

Summary

This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional and complex nature of this social condition. This revised edition includes a range of new entries to keep pace with an expanding field of discourse, an extended set of references, and further perspectives from developing countries. A particular effort has been made to incorporate non-Western approaches and concepts.

Author Biography

Paul Spicker holds the Grampian Chair of Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, and is Director of the Centre for Public Policy and Management. Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón is Associate Professor of Urban Anthropology in the Faculty of Humanities, National University of Salta, Argentina. David Gordon is Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

Introducing the glossary	p. 1
Glossary	p. 5
Absolute Poverty	p. 7
Administrative Poverty	p. 9
Amenities	p. 9
Arabic (Traditional) Definitions of Poverty	p. 10
Area Deprivation	p. 10
Asset Vulnerability Framework	p. 11
Australian Definitions of Poverty	p. 13
Axiom of Monotonicity; Axiom of Transfers	p. 15
Basic Income	p. 16
Basic Needs	p. 17
Basic Security (Security of Existence)	p. 19
Begging	p. 20
Beveridge Scheme	p. 21
Bismarckian Social Insurance	p. 22
Brazilian Definitions of Poverty	p. 22
Budget Standards	p. 23
Calorie-Income Elasticity (CIE)	p. 26
Capabilities and Characteristics	p. 26
Charity	p. 27
Charity Organization Society	p. 29
Child Malnutrition	p. 30
Child Mortality	p. 31
Child Poverty	p. 32
Chinese Definitions of Poverty	p. 34
Chronic Poverty	p. 36
Class	p. 36
Command Over Resources	p. 37
Conditionality	p. 37
Consensual Methods	p. 38
Consumption	p. 40
Contextual Poverty	p. 42
Conversion Capacity	p. 43
Culture of Poverty	p. 43
Cycle of Deprivation	p. 45
Dependency	p. 46
Dependency Culture	p. 47
Dependency Theory	p. 47
Deprivation	p. 49
Deserving Poor	p. 50
Destitution	p. 51
Development	p. 51
Direct and Indirect Measures of Poverty	p. 53
Disability and Poverty	p. 56
Disadvantage	p. 59
Disqualification (La Disqualification Sociale)	p. 59
Diswelfare	p. 60
Economic Definitions of Poverty	p. 61
Economic Distance	p. 62
Empowerment	p. 63
Engel Coefficient	p. 64
Entitlement	p. 65
Equality	p. 65
Equivalence Scales	p. 67
European Relative Income Standard of Poverty	p. 70
European Union Definition of Poverty	p. 71
Exclusion	p. 72
Explanations for Poverty	p. 74
Extended Poverty Minimum	p. 75
Extreme Poverty	p. 75
Family Wage	p. 76
Famine	p. 77
Female Poverty	p. 77
Feminization of Poverty	p. 78
Food Shortages	p. 80
Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) Index	p. 81
Fourth World	p. 83
Fuel Poverty	p. 84
Gender Division of Labour	p. 85
Genetic Explanations	p. 86
Gini Coefficient	p. 87
Gnp Per Capita	p. 88
Head-Count Ratio or Headcount Index H	p. 90
Health and Poverty	p. 91
Homelessness	p. 92
Housing	p. 92
Human Development	p. 93
Human Poverty Index (HPI)	p. 94
Human Rights and Poverty	p. 94
Impoverishment	p. 97
Incentives to Work	p. 98
Income	p. 100
Income Distribution	p. 101
Income Elasticity of the Poverty Line	p. 102
Income Inelasticity of Demand	p. 103
Income Maintenance	p. 104
Income Smoothing	p. 105
Indicators	p. 106
Indices of Deprivation	p. 106
Indigence	p. 107
Informal Sector of the Economy	p. 108
Insertion	p. 109
Institutional Welfare	p. 110
Integrated Poverty (Pauvrete Integree)	p. 110
Integrated Poverty Line	p. 110
Intergenerational Continuity	p. 111
International AID	p. 111
International Fund for Agricultural Development Definitions of Poverty	p. 113
Intra-Household Transfers	p. 114
Inverse Care Law	p. 115
Islamic Definitions of Poverty	p. 116
Kuznets Inverted U Curve; Kuznets Ratio	p. 118
Laeken Indicators	p. 119
Landlessness	p. 120
Less Eligibility	p. 121
Living Standards Measurement Study	p. 122
Low Income Cut-Offs	p. 123
Luxembourg Income Study; Luxembourg Employment Study	p. 124
Malawi Poverty Profile	p. 126
Malnutrition	p. 126
Marginality	p. 128
Maternal Mortality and Morbidity	p. 130
Means-Testing	p. 131
Migration and Poverty	p. 132
Millennium Development Goals	p. 134
Minimum Income Standards	p. 137
Needs	p. 138
Neo-Philanthropy	p. 139
New Poor	p. 140
Non-Contributory Benefits	p. 141
Normative Standards	p. 141
Overall Poverty	p. 143
Overcrowding	p. 144
Participation	p. 145
Participatory Research	p. 146
Pauperism	p. 147
Philanthropy	p. 149
Philippines Definition of Poverty	p. 150
Poor Law	p. 151
Positional Goods	p. 152
Poverty Dominance	p. 153
Poverty Gap	p. 154
Poverty Gap Index (PGI)	p. 155
Poverty Line	p. 156
Poverty Production	p. 156
Poverty Profile	p. 158
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers	p. 159
Poverty Trap	p. 160
Power	p. 161
Precarious Labour	p. 161
Precariousness	p. 162
Primary and Secondary Poverty	p. 163
Problem Families	p. 165
Redistribution	p. 167
Relative Deprivation	p. 167
Relative Poverty	p. 169
Residual Welfare	p. 170
Rights	p. 170
Rural Poverty	p. 171
Safety Nets	p. 173
Scientific Definitions of Poverty	p. 175
Secondary Workers	p. 176
Security	p. 177
Selectivity	p. 178
Sen Index	p. 179
Social Assistance	p. 180
Social Capital	p. 180
Social Distance	p. 182
Social Economy	p. 183
Social Insurance	p. 184
Social Protection	p. 185
Social Security	p. 185
Solidarity	p. 186
Speenhamland System	p. 188
Squatting	p. 189
Standard Food Basket	p. 190
Stigma	p. 191
Street Children	p. 192
Structural Adjustment	p. 193
Structural Dependency	p. 194
Structural Poverty	p. 195
Sub-Employment	p. 197
Sub-Proletariat	p. 198
Subjective Poverty Lines	p. 198
Subsistence	p. 201
Survival Strategies	p. 202
Targeting	p. 204
Tip-Curves	p. 205
Totally Fuzzy and Relative (TFR) Poverty Measures	p. 206
UBN-PL Method	p. 208
Underclass	p. 209
Underemployment	p. 209
Unemployment	p. 210
United States of America Poverty Line	p. 212
Urban Segregation	p. 214
Vagrancy	p. 217
Voice	p. 217
Vulnerability	p. 218
Web of Deprivation	p. 220
Welfare	p. 220
Welfare Housing	p. 221
Welfare Rights	p. 222
Welfare State	p. 223
Workfare	p. 226
Workhouse; Workhouse Test	p. 226
World Bank Poverty Lines	p. 227
Definitions of poverty: twelve clusters of meaning	p. 229
Index	p. 244
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