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Defining poverty and identifying the poor — reflections on the Australian experience
Author(s)	Peter Saunders
Corporate Author	Social Policy Research Centre - SPRC, University of New South Wales
Journal title	SPRC Discussion Paper, no 84, 1998
Pages	24 pp
Keywords	Poverty ; Poor elderly ; Cost of living ; Australia.
Annotation	This is a revised version of the Plenary Address to the Conference to Mark the Centenary of Seebohm Rowntree's First Study of Poverty in York, held at the University of York in March 1998. It provides an overview of the historical development poverty research in Australia, focusing on the impact of Seebohm Rowntree's first poverty study. It also reviews some of the recent Australian evidence on the extent of poverty, and summarises the debates generated by that research. Finally, the paper discusses several developments currently in progress in the area of poverty and living standards research. These include the Adequacy Project being run within Australia's Department of Social Security, the recent SPRC (Social Policy Research Centre) budget standards study, the Project on Poverty in Australia being organised by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the proposed National Living Standards Survey being planned by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980818203 P
Classmark	W6: F:W6: J3C: 7YA
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