5 Approaches to Tackling Poverty Free Online FlashCards

Why is poverty considered multidimensional?

Poverty includes inadequate income and deprivations such as poor health, limited education, unsafe housing, and lack of essential services.

What does an income or consumption poverty measure compare?

It compares a person's or household's income or consumption with a poverty line.

How can disaggregating poverty data improve policy?

Disaggregation by location, age, gender, or disability can reveal groups that are being missed.

How do individual and structural explanations of poverty differ?

Individual explanations point to circumstances such as illness or interrupted education; structural explanations focus on conditions such as low wages, discrimination, and unequal access to services.

What is the main purpose of social protection?

Social protection provides income and basic security through assistance, pensions, unemployment support, health coverage, and social insurance.

What are two risks in designing social protection?

Means tests can exclude eligible people, while benefits may also be too small or difficult to access.

How can employment programs support access to work?

They can support access to work through skills training, job matching, wage support, public employment, or livelihood programs.

Why might having a job fail to lift a household from poverty?

Low pay, insecure hours, or unsafe conditions can mean that a job does not lift a household out of poverty.

What can public works programs provide besides temporary wages?

They provide temporary wages while building community assets, connecting income support with work experience or useful infrastructure.

How do community initiatives make poverty programs more locally responsive?

They give residents a role in identifying priorities and directing or monitoring projects, helping investments respond to local needs.

What can undermine community initiatives, and how can these risks be reduced?

Local elites may dominate decisions, and communities may have unequal capacity. Clear rules, transparent budgets, inclusion, and technical support can reduce these risks.

What do national poverty-reduction strategies coordinate?

They coordinate policies across sectors such as employment, education, health, infrastructure, taxation, social protection, and regional development.