Poverty, Deprivation and Inequality

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Poverty, Deprivation and Inequality
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Outline

• Basic Facts and Concepts
• Theories of Deprivation
• Dimensions of Deprivation

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Some basics

• Patterns of poverty and inequality
• Absolute and relative poverty
• Minimum subsistence
• Culturally Determined
• Underclass?
• Theories of deprivation and policy

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Deprivation

• Lack of access to resources rooted in three major
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• Low wages
• Marginal labor market experience
• Low welfare expenditure
• Deprivation, however, is multi-faceted

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Dimensions of Deprivation

• Crime

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Dimensions of Deprivation

• Crime
• Health
• Physical environment
• Work and income
• Services

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Dimensions of Deprivation

• Crime
• Health
• Physical environment
• Work and income
• Services
• Ethnicity
• Gender

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Geography of Deprivation

• Inner city concentrations
• Economic decline/unemployment
• Physical decline and absence of amenities
• Social disadvantage (e.g. crime, vandalism)
• Concentration of ethnic minorities
  (discrimination)
• Increasingly suburban problem as well

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HUD (2000) The State of the Cities 2000
Megaforces Shaping the Future of the Nations
Cities (Washington DC GPO)
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Key question for urban geography

• People or place-based solutions to urban poverty?