Description:

Paperback: 175 pages
Publisher: Child Poverty Action Group; (2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1901698505
ISBN-13: 978-1901698503

Contains up-to-date facts and figures on poverty in Scotland and shows how Scotland compares to the rest of the UK. It includes essays from leading commentators on the Scottish experience of poverty and the Scottish Parliament's anti-poverty policies. The re-established Scottish Parliament promised to promote distinctly Scottish ways of addressing poverty and social exclusion in Scotland. Three years later, with around a third of Scottish children still living in poverty, this latest edition of Poverty in Scotland examines how successful it has been. Drawing, for the first time, on new Scottish sources of data and poverty measures, Poverty in Scotland 2002 provides up-to-date facts and figures on poverty in Scotland. It expands the information provided in the previous three editions and includes: - measurements of poverty; - employment, low pay and increasing inequality; - groups vulnerable to poverty; - living with poverty; Comparative data is included throughout to enable comparisons with the rest of the UK. This edition also includes, for the first time, a selection of essays from leading figures in the political, academic and voluntary sectors in Scotland. These highlight the distinctive features of Scotland's experience of poverty, as well as its similarities to the rest of the UK. They also examine the national and regional economic factors affecting the policy responses to poverty.

Condition: Creasing to front cover, otherwise good.