Researching poverty
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Researching poverty
(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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