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The Causes of Poverty (1979)

In: Tackling Inequality

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  • D. Piachaud
  • M. Stewart

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Why are some people poor, and what can be done about it? Since incomes come mainly from earnings or from social security, the question turns on the role of each of these. Most, but not all, of the poorest people have little or no earnings, and they are poorer than others because social security incomes are lower than normal earnings. Such people include pensioners, the unemployed and single-parent families. But there are also some poor families where the father is in work but his earnings do not provide much more than social security – even after the addition of Child Benefit, rate and rent rebates and Family Income Supplement. The size and importance of these various groups of people we shall document in a moment, using our analysis of the 1975 General Household Survey.

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  • D. Piachaud & M. Stewart, 1999. "The Causes of Poverty (1979)," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Tackling Inequality, chapter 6, pages 91-104, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37528-4_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230375284_6
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