Jonathan Bradshaw
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53 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2011
last heard May 2011
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Good word.
Clay's left glove has burst.
I say.
Well, for comparative purposes, if you use it in international comparisons, it's 60% of national median income, and it means that the threshold is very different in different countries.
So, just for example, the threshold in 2008 in the United Kingdom was 24,000 euros and in Estonia the same threshold of 60% of the median was 10,000 euros per year.
So you're saying that people are living below the same threshold, but in fact that threshold is very different, and you're not really comparing like with like.
And in the European context, that's effectively what you're trying to do.
Yes, but the level of poverty that those people are living at is very different.
Well, it depends what happens at the threshold.
If the median goes down, then the proportion of people living below 60% of the median will go down, and incomes have fallen in this recession, and we are going to have to wait and see whether the official poverty threshold has gone down or not.
It has in Ireland already, and curiously, there's been a reduction of poverty in Ireland recently,
It's a time when their unemployment is going through the roof.
Now, is there any way that he uses absolute measures?
We used budget standards-based poverty measures in this country until the Second World War.
The person who established this method was Seabone Rowntree in his first study of poverty in York in 1898.
And he used a budget standard based on a food budget adequate for minimum necessities for mere physical efficiency.
And he priced this food budget to the lowest prices in York.
And he added a bit for clothing and fuel and rent.
And he said that anybody with an income below this standard was poor.
It's been described as an absolute poverty measure.
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