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Researching poverty

edited by Jonathan Bradshaw and Roy Sainsbury

(Cash & care)

Ashgate, c2000

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"Supported by Joseph Rowntree Foundation" -- Cover

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of papers represents a review of the theory, method and policy relevance of poverty research since the war. It aims to contribute to bringing high-quality research in this area back into the centre of both social research effort and informed policy debate.

Table of Contents

  • Poverty research in the post-war era
  • the "scientific" measurement of poverty - recent theoretical advances
  • agreeing poverty lines - the development of consensual budget standards methodology
  • developing the use of administrative data to study poverty
  • analysis of low income using the family resources survey
  • a century of poverty in Britain, 1898-1998 - a geographical analysis.

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