John Penrose on escaping the poverty trap
Should poverty be defined by how much you earn, how much less money you have than the average household, or something altogether more holistic - the myriad of interlocking factors, from health to social capital to transport links, that define someone's quality of life?
That's the question that Conservative MP John Penrose grappled with in his landmark report, Poverty Trapped, released at the end of last year. As well as an acute diagnosis of the problems of measuring poverty purely in terms of income, it's full of workable policy solutions to help spread opportunity and raise people's quality…
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