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Measuring the “poverty penalty” in the UK
Author(s) -
Purdam Kingsley,
Royston Sam,
Whitham Graham
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.01056.x
Subject(s) - poverty , government (linguistics) , face (sociological concept) , public economics , economics , business , development economics , operations research , economic growth , sociology , engineering , social science , linguistics , philosophy
People with limited financial resources can face additional costs for essential goods and services. This is a challenge for the new British government to address, and a problem that must be reflected in government statistics, say Kingsley Purdam, Sam Royston and Graham Whitham