Assessing progress in poverty reduction:
definition of poverty & causes of poverty with statistics
The wider definition of poverty adopted by the 1995 Social summit includes deprivation,social exclusion and lack of participation. However, the situation today may be even more deplorable than a money income poverty line would suggest. In Singapore, definition of poverty drawn from the income qualifying criteria in different assistance schemes covers surviving on less than S$10 per person per day.
As mentioned early,people get tangled in the poverty web mostly due to circumstances such as unemployment,low income or have no financial support from their family.Even though there is no officially recognised poverty line, going by the recent number of street people , there are about 170-300 people in Singapore turning the streets to their home yearly. About 50% are old (60 and above years old) and have no family, employment or skills. Others are abandoned by their own families. In addition, the Singapore Department of Statistics has released a figure of about 4 per cent of Singapore’s resident population (or 120,000) living at or close to the poverty line in 1998 (The Straits Times, 31 May 2000). Income distribution as measured by the Gini coefficient was 0.481 in 2000. In the most recent population census (2000a), 12.6 per cent of households (116,300 households) in Singapore earned less than S$1000 a month (average household income was S$4943 per month). The lowest 10% of households excluding those with no income earners had an average monthly income of S$459 in 2000 (average household size was 3.7) (Singapore Census of Population, 2001).
Citation from: http://www.pragueinstitute.org/GUDMag07Vol3Iss1/Yuen.htm
Something indeed had to be done in order to reduce this figures.Thus, being efficient,the government came up with some plans so as to alleviate the issues.
definition of poverty & causes of poverty with statistics
The wider definition of poverty adopted by the 1995 Social summit includes deprivation,social exclusion and lack of participation. However, the situation today may be even more deplorable than a money income poverty line would suggest. In Singapore, definition of poverty drawn from the income qualifying criteria in different assistance schemes covers surviving on less than S$10 per person per day.
As mentioned early,people get tangled in the poverty web mostly due to circumstances such as unemployment,low income or have no financial support from their family.Even though there is no officially recognised poverty line, going by the recent number of street people , there are about 170-300 people in Singapore turning the streets to their home yearly. About 50% are old (60 and above years old) and have no family, employment or skills. Others are abandoned by their own families. In addition, the Singapore Department of Statistics has released a figure of about 4 per cent of Singapore’s resident population (or 120,000) living at or close to the poverty line in 1998 (The Straits Times, 31 May 2000). Income distribution as measured by the Gini coefficient was 0.481 in 2000. In the most recent population census (2000a), 12.6 per cent of households (116,300 households) in Singapore earned less than S$1000 a month (average household income was S$4943 per month). The lowest 10% of households excluding those with no income earners had an average monthly income of S$459 in 2000 (average household size was 3.7) (Singapore Census of Population, 2001).
Citation from: http://www.pragueinstitute.org/GUDMag07Vol3Iss1/Yuen.htm
Something indeed had to be done in order to reduce this figures.Thus, being efficient,the government came up with some plans so as to alleviate the issues.
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