Setting adequacy standards: how governments define minimum incomes
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| Physical Description: | X, 142 S. |
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Acknowledgements v
Summary vii
1 Introduction: the scope and methods of the research project I
The governmental approach to minimum incomes I
National and local standards 2
Standard or instrument? 3
Limitations 4
Comparability of available material 5
The MIS unit 5
A note on presentation 6
Research aims 6
The distinction between poverty measures and MIS 7
Topicality of the material 9
Scope and structure of the report 9
2 Poverty measures and governmental Minimum
Income Standards I I
What is poverty? 11
The level of living 12
Poverty definitions, measures and lines 14
Three scientific approaches to poverty research 16
Standards of adequacy 21
What are governmental MIS? 23
The difference between poverty measures and MIS 24
Is Income Support a MIS in the UK? 26
Conclusion 27
3 How are Minimum Income Standards and poverty expressed? 31
The stratification of standards 32
Time and risk 33
The stratification of standards by tiers of income sources 34
Why do governments want MIS? 38
Discourses: the languages of poverty and MIS 41
What is a discourse? 42
Conclusion 48
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4 The Minimum Income Standards instruments in ten
countries and their uses 51
The MIS instruments 51
Rebasing, updating and uprating 52
The three tiers of MIS 54
Conclusions: the uses of MIS 67
5 The adequacy of Minimum Income Standards 71
Ideas of adequacy underlying MIS 72
Adequacy for whom? The stratification issue 79
Conclusion 83
6 Implementing Minimum Income Standards: some policy issues 85
Are MIS feasible! 85
The European aspect 86
Must Treasury officials be inherently opposed to MIS? 87
Can reviews of MIS be politically credible? 89
Official reviews of adequacy in the UK and of MIS elsewhere 89
Poverty discourse as MIS constraint or opportunity? 92
Conclusion 100
7 Conclusions: requirements for Minimum Income Standards 103
The scope of MIS in poverty policy 103
Requirements of any MIS 104
Conclusion I 10
References I 13
Appendix A: The income maintenance system 125
Appendix B: Equivalence scales 127
Appendix C: Informants to the study 1992 94 133
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