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Smallholders food security and the environment Smallholders food security and the environment Enabling poor rural peoplto overcome poverty Minor amendments have been included in this document t. cdcgovnchshealthdataforallageshtm RACE ETHNICITY Unreliable data Includes Hispanics brPage 3br brPage 4br EP A100F08029 ECO23/PSY23 Behavioral Economics. Udayan. Roy. A Behavioral Economics Approach to the Poor. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. By . Sendhil. . Mullainathan. and . Eldar. . Shafir. , Times Books, 2013. ESRC. Overview. Poverty traps and adaptive preferences: beyond conventional accounts of deprivation and disadvantage. . The design of pro-poor interventions. . . Poverty Traps: Two views . Bobby . Ramakant. , Rachael Thomson. STOP . TB Partnership TB . and Poverty Subgroup. Poverty and health: the links. Increased Personal and Environmental Risks. Increased Malnutrition. Less Access to Knowledge, information. Utsa Patnaik. January 2012. 1. Ogive of Persons by MPCE Levels, Rural 1983. 2. Daily per capita Calorie Intake by MPCE Rural 1983. 3. . Ogive. of Persons by MPCE levels, Rural 2009-10 . 4.Daily per capita Calorie Intake by MPCE, Rural 2009-10. Elisabetta Aurino. Partnership for Child Development. Imperial College London. & University of Oxford. Recalling unidimensional approach?. Limits – spell out. Problems with unidimensional approach. Wealth and Poverty. Wealth – A large amount of money. Poverty – being without money, food or basic needs. What is poverty? No home? No TV? No food? No Car? No Pets? No heating? No cigarettes?. Top footballer wages …. £250,000 per WEEK!. Lorenz Curve of Absolute Inequality. % of. Nat’l income. % of pop. 0 20 40 60 80 100. 100. 80. 60. 40. 20. 0. Gini coefficient (income). ’62 .8. ’95 .87. Gudrais, E.(2008)UnequalAmerica:Causes and consequences. This is the Irish Government's definition of poverty in its . National Action Plan for Social Inclusion 2007-2016. . . What it means is that people are living in poverty if they do not have enough money to do the things that most people in Ireland take for granted. Poverty can mean not having the money to buy enough food for your family, not being able to afford to heat your home in winter or having to buy second-hand clothes because you can't afford new ones. . In 2007 more than 37 million people or 12.5% of the population fell below the official poverty thresholds “poverty line.” in 2007 the line was set at an income of $20,650 for a family of four. Critics regard poverty criteria to be quite conservative and believe measures should be set 25% higher. . POVERTY….. BY ST.VINCENTS HIGH SCHOOL. POVERTY IN INDIA…. DEFINATION OF POVERTY… Poverty in India can be defined as a situation when a certain section of people are unable to fulfill their basic needs. India has the world's largest number of poor people living in a single country. Extreme poverty, lack of opportunity for gainful employment and intermittency of income and low standards of living are the main reasons for the wide prevalence of child labour. Though it is possible to identify child labour in the organized sector, which form a minuscule of the total child labour, the problem relates mainly to the unorganized sector where utmost attention needs to be paid. The problem is universal but in our case it is more crucial.  2. 1 . in 9 people in the world regularly go hungry. . . (1). 1 in 9 people in the world don’t have clean water to drink. . . (2). 24% of the wealth in the UK is possessed by the richest 1% of people. Martin Ravallion. . Georgetown University course ECON 156: Poverty and Inequality. Lecture notes to accompany . Ravallion’s. . The Economics of Poverty. Persistent shocks + chronic poverty. Continuing threat of . Recap and Conclusions. Martin . Ravallion. Georgetown University. (Reading: EOP Conclusions). Recap. The course has introduce you to the main past and present . debates about poverty and inequality in the world. .