Table of Contents
67 relations: Adam Smith, Amartya Sen, Asset poverty, Bob Allen (economic historian), Body mass index, Calorie, Charles Booth (social reformer), Child poverty, Children's Health Insurance Program, Clothing, Consumption (economics), Cost of living, COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, Credit, Developed country, Developing country, Economic and Social Research Institute, Economic development, European Union, Food, Guaranteed minimum income, Health, Health care, Income, Income deficit, John Kenneth Galbraith, Latrine, List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty, Living wage, London School Board, Low Pay Commission, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Measuring poverty, Medicaid, Millennium Development Goals, Minimum wage, Mollie Orshansky, National Minimum Wage Act 1998, Newcastle University, Nutritionist, OECD, Office for National Statistics, Peter Townsend (sociologist), Poor person, Poverty, Poverty in the United States, Purchasing power parity, Renting, Rose Friedman, Secondary poverty, ... Expand index (17 more) »
- Measurements and definitions of poverty
Adam Smith
Adam Smith (baptised 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment.
See Poverty threshold and Adam Smith
Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (born 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher.
See Poverty threshold and Amartya Sen
Asset poverty
Asset poverty is an economic and social condition that is more persistent and prevalent than income poverty. Poverty threshold and Asset poverty are Measurements and definitions of poverty.
See Poverty threshold and Asset poverty
Bob Allen (economic historian)
Robert Carson Allen (born 10 January 1947 in Salem, Massachusetts) is Professor of Economic History at New York University Abu Dhabi. His research interests are economic history, technological change and public policy and he has written extensively on English agricultural history. He has also studied international competition in the steel industry, the extinction of Bowhead Whales in the Eastern Arctic, and contemporary policies on education.
See Poverty threshold and Bob Allen (economic historian)
Body mass index
Body mass index (BMI) is a value derived from the mass (weight) and height of a person.
See Poverty threshold and Body mass index
Calorie
The calorie is a unit of energy that originated from the caloric theory of heat.
See Poverty threshold and Calorie
Charles Booth (social reformer)
Charles James Booth (30 March 1840 – 23 November 1916) was a British shipowner, Comtean positivist, social researcher, and reformer, best known for his innovative philanthropic studies on working-class life in London towards the end of the 19th century.
See Poverty threshold and Charles Booth (social reformer)
Child poverty
Child poverty refers to the state of children living in poverty and applies to children from poor families and orphans being raised with limited or no state resources.
See Poverty threshold and Child poverty
Children's Health Insurance Program
The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – formerly known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children.
See Poverty threshold and Children's Health Insurance Program
Clothing
Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on the body.
See Poverty threshold and Clothing
Consumption (economics)
Consumption is the act of using resources to satisfy current needs and wants.
See Poverty threshold and Consumption (economics)
Cost of living
The cost of living is the cost of maintaining a certain standard of living for an individual or a household.
See Poverty threshold and Cost of living
COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
| suspected_cases.
See Poverty threshold and COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
Credit
Credit (from Latin verb credit, meaning "one believes") is the trust which allows one party to provide money or resources to another party wherein the second party does not reimburse the first party immediately (thereby generating a debt), but promises either to repay or return those resources (or other materials of equal value) at a later date.
See Poverty threshold and Credit
Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
See Poverty threshold and Developed country
Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
See Poverty threshold and Developing country
Economic and Social Research Institute
The Economic and Social Research Institute is an Irish research institute founded in 1960 to provide evidence-based research used to inform public policy debate and decision-making.
See Poverty threshold and Economic and Social Research Institute
Economic development
In the economics study of the public sector, economic and social development is the process by which the economic well-being and quality of life of a nation, region, local community, or an individual are improved according to targeted goals and objectives.
See Poverty threshold and Economic development
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
See Poverty threshold and European Union
Food
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support.
See Poverty threshold and Food
Guaranteed minimum income
Guaranteed minimum income (GMI), also called minimum income (or mincome for short), is a social-welfare system that guarantees all citizens or families an income sufficient to live on, provided that certain eligibility conditions are met, typically: citizenship and that the person in question does not already receive a minimum level of income to live on.
See Poverty threshold and Guaranteed minimum income
Health
Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time.
See Poverty threshold and Health
Health care
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.
See Poverty threshold and Health care
Income
Income is the consumption and saving opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms.
See Poverty threshold and Income
Income deficit
Income deficit is the difference between a single person or family's income and its poverty threshold or poverty line, when the former is exceeded by the latter. Poverty threshold and income deficit are Measurements and definitions of poverty and Welfare economics.
See Poverty threshold and Income deficit
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual.
See Poverty threshold and John Kenneth Galbraith
Latrine
A latrine is a toilet or an even simpler facility that is used as a toilet within a sanitation system.
See Poverty threshold and Latrine
List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty
This is a list of countries by percentage of population living in poverty, as recorded by the World Bank and Our World in Data. Poverty threshold and list of countries by percentage of population living in poverty are Measurements and definitions of poverty.
See Poverty threshold and List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty
Living wage
A living wage is defined as the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs.
See Poverty threshold and Living wage
London School Board
The School Board for London, commonly known as the London School Board (LSB), was an institution of local government and the first directly elected body covering the whole of London.
See Poverty threshold and London School Board
Low Pay Commission
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) is an independent body in the United Kingdom, established in 1997, that advises the government on the National Minimum Wage.
See Poverty threshold and Low Pay Commission
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
See Poverty threshold and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Measuring poverty
Poverty is measured in different ways by different bodies, both governmental and nongovernmental. Poverty threshold and Measuring poverty are Measurements and definitions of poverty.
See Poverty threshold and Measuring poverty
Medicaid
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources.
See Poverty threshold and Medicaid
Millennium Development Goals
In the United Nations, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight international development goals for the year 2015 created following the Millennium Summit, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
See Poverty threshold and Millennium Development Goals
Minimum wage
A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor.
See Poverty threshold and Minimum wage
Mollie Orshansky
Mollie Orshansky (January 9, 1915 – December 18, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who, in 1963–65, developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, which are used in the United States as a measure of the income that a household must not exceed to be counted as poor.
See Poverty threshold and Mollie Orshansky
National Minimum Wage Act 1998
The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (c. 39) creates a minimum wage across the United Kingdom.
See Poverty threshold and National Minimum Wage Act 1998
Newcastle University
Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England.
See Poverty threshold and Newcastle University
Nutritionist
A nutritionist is a person who advises others on matters of food and nutrition and their impacts on health.
See Poverty threshold and Nutritionist
OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
See Poverty threshold and OECD
Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS; Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.
See Poverty threshold and Office for National Statistics
Peter Townsend (sociologist)
Peter Brereton Townsend (6 April 1928, Middlesbrough – 8 June 2009, Dursley) was a British sociologist.
See Poverty threshold and Peter Townsend (sociologist)
Poor person
A poor person is a legal status in many countries in the world that allows an individual to have fair court even if they do not have enough financial savings.
See Poverty threshold and Poor person
Poverty
Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living.
See Poverty threshold and Poverty
Poverty in the United States
In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications.
See Poverty threshold and Poverty in the United States
Purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.
See Poverty threshold and Purchasing power parity
Renting
Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the use of a good, service or property owned by another over a fixed period of time.
See Poverty threshold and Renting
Rose Friedman
Rose Director Friedman; born Rose Director (30 December 1910 – 18 August 2009) was a free-market economist and co-founder of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation.
See Poverty threshold and Rose Friedman
Secondary poverty
Secondary poverty is a description of poverty referring to those living below the poverty line whose income was sufficient for them to live above the line, but was spent on things other than the necessities of life. Poverty threshold and Secondary poverty are Measurements and definitions of poverty.
See Poverty threshold and Secondary poverty
Seebohm Rowntree
Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, CH (7 July 1871 – 7 October 1954) was an English sociological researcher, social reformer and industrialist.
See Poverty threshold and Seebohm Rowntree
Social safety net
The social safety net (SSN) consists of non-contributory assistance existing to improve lives of vulnerable families and individuals experiencing poverty and destitution.
See Poverty threshold and Social safety net
Standard of living
Standard of living is the level of income, comforts and services available to an individual, community or society.
See Poverty threshold and Standard of living
Statistical significance
In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when a result at least as "extreme" would be very infrequent if the null hypothesis were true.
See Poverty threshold and Statistical significance
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
In the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal government program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people to help them maintain adequate nutrition and health.
See Poverty threshold and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Sustainable Development Goal 1
Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1 or Global Goal 1), one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2015, calls for the end of poverty in all forms.
See Poverty threshold and Sustainable Development Goal 1
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
See Poverty threshold and The Guardian
UNICEF
UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
See Poverty threshold and UNICEF
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
See Poverty threshold and United Nations
United Nations Commission for Social Development
The Commission for Social Development (CSocD) is one of the eight functional commissions established by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 1946 to advise and assist it in carrying its work.
See Poverty threshold and United Nations Commission for Social Development
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
See Poverty threshold and United Nations Development Programme
Urban Institute
The Urban Institute is a Washington, D.C.–based think tank that conducts economic and social policy research to "open minds, shape decisions, and offer solutions".
See Poverty threshold and Urban Institute
Victor Fuchs
Victor Robert Fuchs (January 31, 1924 – September 16, 2023) was an American health economist.
See Poverty threshold and Victor Fuchs
Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
See Poverty threshold and Water
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
See Poverty threshold and World Bank
World Poverty Clock
The World Poverty Clock is a tool to monitor progress against poverty globally, and regionally. Poverty threshold and World Poverty Clock are Measurements and definitions of poverty.
See Poverty threshold and World Poverty Clock
York
York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss.
See Poverty threshold and York
See also
Measurements and definitions of poverty
- Asset poverty
- Below Poverty Line
- Chronic poverty
- Concentrated poverty
- Disadvantaged
- Extreme poverty
- Foster–Greer–Thorbecke indices
- Global Hunger Index
- Growth elasticity of poverty
- Head count ratio
- Heavily indebted poor countries
- Homeless Vulnerability Index
- Households Below Average Income
- Human Poverty Index
- Income deficit
- Income deprivation affecting children index (UK)
- Index of Multiple Deprivation 2000
- Indices of deprivation 2004
- Indices of deprivation 2007
- Indices of deprivation 2010
- Individual Deprivation Measure
- Least developed countries
- List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty
- Lumpenproletariat
- Measuring poverty
- Multidimensional Poverty Index
- Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative
- Multiple deprivation index
- Poverty gap index
- Poverty map
- Poverty threshold
- Poverty thresholds (United States Census Bureau)
- Proletariat
- Relative deprivation
- Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
- Secondary poverty
- The New Bottom Billion
- Townsend deprivation index
- Underclass
- Working poor
- World Poverty Clock
References
Also known as Above Poverty Line, Absolute deprivation, Absolute poverty line, Absolute poverty rate, Global poverty line, International poverty line, Objective deprivation, Objective poverty, Poverty Line, Poverty guidelines, Poverty level, Relative poverty, Relative poverty line, Relative poverty rate, The poverty line.