SOWK 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Multidimensional Poverty Index, Human Poverty Index, Gross National Income
28 Sep 2017
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Upcoming event: public consultation on a basic income pilot project oct 17. Welfare regimes: social demographic, universalist values: everyone sharing in it, norway, sweden, corporatist/ conversative, individual values, austria, france, germany. Harper government was in this conservative regime: liberal, market economy, us, australia, canada-by default. Maps out different political parties: political ideology is fluid. Poverty indicators- hpi: human poverty index, longevity, knowledge= adult literacy + enrolment, standard of liiving, + social inclusion (unemployment, 2000- canada was #11, 2000- replaced by multidimensional poverty index. Didn(cid:495)t rank as high when added other factor of social inclusion and. Looks at the intensity of poverty and the number of people in the country. Poverty indicators- bli unemployment: housing, subjective well-being, personal security, health status. Income and wealth: social connections, environmental quality, education and skills, work-life balance, civic engagement. Canada has 7. 4 grade across all ^ indicators, higher than the oecd (national) average of 6. 5.
