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Economics- Edexcel 4.2

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Absolute poverty other name   extreme poverty  
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Absolute poverty definition   when a household does not have sufficient income to sustain even a basic acceptable standard of living and enough income to meet people’s basic needs  
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Absolute poverty thresholds   vary between developed and developing countries  
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Main extreme poverty line   percentage of population living below $1.90 a day (PPP)  
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National poverty line in lower-middle-income countries   percentage of population living below $3.10 a day (PPP)  
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National poverty line in upper-middle-income countries   percentage of population living below $5.50 a day (PPP)  
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Extreme poverty is multidimensional, why?   it is about more than low income per capita  
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Relative poverty   those with a level of household income considerably lower than the median level of income within a country  
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Official UK relative poverty line   household disposable income of less than 60% of median income  
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Why is median income preferred when looking at relative poverty?   the median per capita reveals the progress of a ‘typical’ person and isn’t influenced by the tails of distribution from the lowest and highest income families  
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Extreme poverty is declining or increasing according to the World Bank?   declining  
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Shared or inclusive prosperity   when economic growth increases the incomes and consumption of people in the poorest 40 per cent of the population  
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Main causes of absolute poverty   higher population growth than GDP/severe households savings gap/absence of gov services/endemic corruption/high debt/civil wars/disasters/low formal employment/no property rights  
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Endemic corruption   heads of government bureaucracies are corrupt in the procedures and criteria for personal advancement in the government bureaucracy  
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Formal employment   long-term and contracted  
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Main determinant of per capita income   level of labour productivity measured by real GDP per person adjusted for PPP  
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Factors limiting the value of labour productivity in low-income countries   low rate s of urbanisation/weak human capital/infrastructure gaps/gender inequalities/malnourishment/limited economies of scale/dependency on low value-added industries  
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Value-added of an industry   The contribution of private industry or a government sector to overall gross domestic product (GDP)  
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Relative poverty occurs because   income and consumption are skewed across households, communities and regions  
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MDPI   multi-dimensional poverty index  
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Purpose of MDPI   go deeper than basic HDI by looking at a person’s deprivation across 10 indicators  
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Measures of inequality   quintile ratio, palma ratio, gini coefficient  
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Quintile ratio   ratio of average income of richest 20% of population to average income of poorest 20% of population  
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Palma ratio   ratio of the richest 10% of the population’s share of gross national income divided by the poorest 40%’s share  
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Gini coefficient   gini index of 0 represents perfect equality, index of 100 implies perfect inequality  
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Lorenz curve   visual interpretation of income or wealth inequality  
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Country with highest gini coefficient 2023   south africa - 63.0  
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Country with lowest gini coefficient 2023   slovenia - 24.6  
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‘hollowing-out ‘ effect   the disappearance of middle-class manufacturing jobs and spending power as socioeconomic stratification intensifies  
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Kuznets inequality curve   inequality rises during a phase of rapid industrialisation & urbanisation but eventually increased state welfare provision, progressive income & taxes, balanced income growth lead to a fall in overall inequality  
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Main pillars of free-market capitalist economic system   private property/self-interest/competition in markets/operation of the price mechanism/freedom of choice/limited role for government  
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What reduces the profit motive’s contribution to high income and consumption inequality in a capitalist society?   people are motivated to run businesses as social enterprises, co-operative businesses, taxes on high profits and incomes, competition policy and intervention to control monopoly profits & keep prices down  
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Co-operative businesses   a business or organisation that's owned and controlled by its members, to meet their shared needs  
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What reduces the capitalist’s labour market contribution to high income and consumption inequality in a capitalist society?   minimum wage, legal caps on executive pay, legal protections for employees, gov investment in human capital promoting skills and employability  
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Thomas Piketty   argued that rising inequality was an inevitable consequence of capitalism  
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Critics of Thomas Piketty   capitalism has helped make the world a more equal place, e.g. through globalisation  
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Gross income   amount of money earned before direct taxes & other deductions  
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Household income   flow of weekly or monthly earnings from wages & salaries ,interest, dividends and rental income  
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Household wealth   the value of a stock of assets such as property, shares, pension funds and other long-term savings  
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S80/S20   ratio of income received by 20% of people with highest income to that received by the 20% with the lowest income  
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