Poverty: The Facts
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Introductory 1. Introduction 2. What is poverty? 3. How do we measure it? 4. Why should we worry about child poverty? Causes, circumstances and risk factors 5. What causes poverty? 6. Who is at risk of poverty? 7. Does family structure matter? 8. Poverty and work 9. Poverty risk factors 10. Poverty and costs Dynamics of poverty 11. How long do people stay in poverty? Dimensions of poverty 12. The lived experience of poverty Poverty and policy 13. How do we tackle poverty? 14. International comparisons; Conclusions 15. Where next?

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Alan Marsh is emeritus professor at the Policy Studies Institute. He is a specialist in the use of large-scale survey research to study the relationship between social and economic change and social policy, and the evaluation of social policy, both in general and in quasi-experimental pilots.

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