poverty

Question 1

absolute poverty

Answer 1

incomes below a threshold($2day) to access the most basic lifesaving goods and services

Question 2

relative poverty

Answer 2

incomes below a given average in society

Question 3

horizontal equity

Answer 3

equal treatment of equals

Question 4

vertical equity

Answer 4

higher income earners taxed more

Question 5

causes of poverty

Answer 5

1.unemployment
2.poor education/skills
3.poor healthcare and health
4.wage differentials(relative poverty
5.born into poverty/raised by a single poverty
6.tax cuts for well off(relative poverty)
7subsistence agriculture(children working in firms)
children working on farms
8.old age
9.low wage

Question 6

effects of poverty

Answer 6

heating or eating

• not enough money for heating and eating
• health deprivation
• education deprivation