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Developing Poverty Measures: Research in Europe
Defining and Measuring Poverty
A series of Conferences sponsored by the UK Economic and Social
Research Council
The aim of this series of Conferences is to review the best European
research into poverty and explore whether there can be a scientific
consensus on measures of "absolute" and "overall" poverty suggested in
the programme of action agreed by 117 countries at the 1995 World
Summit on Social Development.
Agenda of the Bristol Conference on 1st and 2nd July 1999
Thursday 1st July at the Victoria Rooms, University of Bristol
10.00 Registration, Tea and Coffee
10.30 Defining Poverty (There will be breaks for coffee, tea and lunch)
Jonathan Bradshaw: Child Poverty in Europe (confirmed)
Hilary Land: Money Isn't Everything (confirmed)
Seosamh MacCarthaig: Direct and Indirect Poverty (confirmed)
Joanna Mack: Explaining Complex Definitions of Poverty to the Public (confirmed)
Tony Manners: Defining and Measuring Poverty: Measurement Issues (confirmed)
Ides Nicaise: Poverty and Human Capital (confirmed)
Hermione Parker: Budget Standards (confirmed)
Bernd Schulte: European Definitions of Poverty (invited)
John Veit-Wilson: Minimum Income Standards (confirmed)
The launch of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research
will take place between 6.00 and 8.00pm on the evening of the 1st July
in the University of Bristol's Elton Room at Senate House.
Friday 2nd July from 10.00 am at the Victoria Rooms, University of
Bristol (There will be breaks)
Measuring Social Exclusion (all speakers confirmed)
John Hills: Problems of Measuring Social Exclusion
Elaine Kempson and Claire Wiley: Defining and Measuring Financial Exclusion
Ruth Levitas: What is Social Exclusion?
Graham Room: Social Exclusion: The Wider Context
Peter Townsend: The Relationship between Poverty, Social Deprivation
and Social Exclusion
Measuring Poverty
David Gordon: Poverty: The Millennium Survey (confirmed)
Sharon Lancaster & Glen Bramley: Low Income and Poverty in Scotland
(confirmed)
Stephan Leibfried: Poverty Dynamics (invited)
Markku Lindqvist: Poverty in Finland and Europe (confirmed)
Mike Nobel and George Smith: Defining and Measuring Poverty at Small
Area Level (confirmed)
Jane Seymour: The UNED-UK Human Development Report on Poverty in the UK
(confirmed)
Christopher Whelan, Richard Layte and Brian Nolan: Monitoring the Irish
Anti-poverty Strategy: Trends in Growth, Income and Deprivation
(confirmed)
Developing Poverty Measures: Research in Europe
Defining and Measuring Poverty
Bristol Conference on 1st and 2nd July 1999
BOOKING FORM
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The cost of this Conference is £50 for waged participants and £25 for
students and unwaged. The cost includes coffee, tea and lunch. A
vegetarian option will be available. Please indicate whether you are a
vegetarian or not.
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Please send this booking form and your cheque (made payable to
"University of Bristol") to:
Claire Biddlecombe
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol
8 Priory Road
Bristol BS8 1TZ
United Kingdom
Telephone: 0117 954 6765
Alternatively, you can fax your booking form to Claire Biddlecombe
(+44) (0)117 954 6756
Or, you can e-mail on [log in to unmask]
Developing Poverty Measures: Research in Europe
A series of Conferences sponsored by the Economic and Social Research
Council
The general aim of this series of six conferences is to draw together
the huge volume of scientific work into poverty around Europe and to
give greater public authority to the best findings and the most
reliable methodologies of that research. This can be done effectively
only in the context of the work going on in all countries and with
continuing reference to international developments. For this reason,
the international agencies, including the United Nations, have been
invited to play a part in the programme. A series of books and other
reports are planned and will be published as the programme is completed
between October 1998 and September 2000.
In Bristol the intention is to focus on:
1. The complex (and often contested) problems of trying to
scientifically define the concept of poverty
2. Recent attempts in Britain and other European countries to find
valid and reliable methods of measuring social exclusion
3. Recent advances by European researchers in the measurement of
poverty. There have been over 100 years of social scientific research
into measuring poverty in Britain and this conference will attempt to
elaborate the 'state of the art' as we approach the new Millenium.
Details will be given of the new Millennium Poverty Survey which is
being funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
This Conference will also mark the launch of the Townsend Centre for
International Poverty Research. This is a multi-disciplinary research
centre which has been established by the University of Bristol in
response to the United Nations first International Decade for the
Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006) and also in recognition of the work
of Professor Peter Townsend. The governments of the world have
committed themselves, through the United Nations and the OECD, to the
goal of eradicating poverty by the end of the 21st Century. The
University sector can support this goal by providing high quality
interdisciplinary research into effective anti-poverty policies. Over
50 academics from ten departments in the Social Science and Medical
Faculties at Bristol are involved in a research-based initiative with
the following aims:
1. The production of practical policies and solutions for the
alleviation and eventual ending of world poverty. This aim is
consistent with current UK Government and United Nations policy.
2. Greater understanding of both the 'scientific' and 'subjective'
measurement of poverty.
3. Investigation into the causes of poverty.
4. Analysis of the costs and consequences of poverty for individuals,
families, communities and societies.
5. Research into theoretical and conceptual issues of definition and
perceptions of poverty.
6. Wide dissemination of the policy implications of research into poverty.
Poverty has many manifestations and can be approached as a conceptual
problem as well as one for practical policy. The aim of the Centre is
therefore to place the implications of poverty in Britain in an
international perspective.
FUTURE CONFERENCES IN THIS SERIES
5 and 6 October 1999 in Dartington on "Poverty and Inequalities in
Health". This conference will examine the evidence for the widening
gap in inequalities in health in Europe and look at the implications of
the recent report of the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities and
Health, under the chairmanship of Sir Donald Acheson, for health
research and policy in Europe. Dartington Hall is located near the
Devon town of Totnes.
5th, 6th and 7th April 2000 in Bristol on the "Elimination of poverty:
Millennium commitment to action". This conference is being organised
by the Graduate School of Education at Bristol in conjunction with the
Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research.
The aim of eliminating poverty in the world's poorest countries by 2015
will require a concerted effort by all involved, particularly the
countries themselves, who will need to develop coherent strategies and
policies, and Development Agencies and NGOs who will be required to
work together to support these efforts. The challenges involved in the
elimination of poverty go beyond any one sector. It is not just an
economic concern. Poverty, ignorance and poor health all interact and
the defeat of poverty will only be achieved through the development of
intersectoral collaboration. This conference will provide a rare
opportunity for academics in the areas of Health, Education and
Economics, in the company of professionals charged with the development
and implementation of such policy, to listen to, and learn from, each
other. The structure of the conference will be designed to facilitate
interchange of ideas through keynote papers, discussion groups, and
workshops as well as more traditional papers and posters.
The conference will provide the forum for a cross sectoral exploration
of issues, and examination of strategies and plans, with the final
outcome being the listing of a series of priorities and recommendations
for all those involved in the elimination of poverty. These issues
will be revisited in a follow-up conference to be convened by the
Centre for International Education (LINS) in Oslo College in 2002 when
there will be an opportunity to report on progress and map the next
steps forward.
For further information about these conferences, please e-mail David
Gordon: [log in to unmask]
Alternatively, you can write to:
The Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research
University of Bristol
8 Priory Road
Bristol BS8 1TZ
Tel: +44 (0)117 954 6761 or Fax: +44 (0)117 954 6756
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Dave Gordon
Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research
University of Bristol
8 Priory Road
Bristol BS8 1TZ, UK
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: (44)-(117)-954 6761
Fax: (44)-(117)-954 6756
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