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What is poverty?

Geoff Riley

31st July 2009

Michael Blastland has an excellent piece on the difference between absolute and relative poverty in this article on the BBC news website Very clear on medians, means and where to draw the line when measuring official levels of relative poverty.

Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty 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 conferences in the UK and overseas.

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