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More on poverty strategies

Geoff Riley

4th February 2010

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Benefit take up is low in the UK and about £16bn in income-related benefits and tax credits goes unclaimed in the UK in a year. Improving take up can have a big effect on the disposable incomes of lower income families. This BBC article is relevant here.

Paul Mason provides this excellent four minute report on poverty policies and focuses on the idea of bottom-up approaches including encouraging social entrepreneurship as a way of stumulating employment opportunities within local communities. The Persistence of Poverty

The UK has a worse infant mortality rate than Greece, despite having almost double the income per person - Guardian Blog

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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