Synopses & Reviews
This landmark study provides the first comprehensive assessment of the nature and associations between the three main forms of social disadvantage in Australia: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion. Drawing on the author's extensive research expertise and his links with welfare practitioners, it explains the limitations of existing approaches and presents new findings that build on the insights of disadvantaged Australians and views about the essentials of life, providing the basis for a new deprivation-based poverty measure.
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This book represents a significant advance to poverty and exclusion research in Australia and internationally. It is essential reading for anyone interested in this rapidly changing field. David Gordon, University of Bristol
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This book does an outstanding job of teasing out the relationships between low income, deprivation and social exclusion, analysed in an Australian context but with many lessons for anyone interested in identifying and addressing disadvantage. Brian Nolan, Professor of Public Policy, University College Dublin, Ireland
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This book moves us beyond the study of poverty using conventional incomemeasures and introduces a range of other ways of studying poverty,deprivation and exclusion. The ideas and applications have lessons for allthose involved in research on poverty and living standards. Jonathan Bradshaw, Professor of Social Policy, University of York
About the Author
Peter Saunders, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales