Items tagged with POVERTY

This paper aims to analyze the impact of the pandemic on different situations of poverty, which include characterizations that go beyond its usual consideration as a relative and monetary phenomenon. We review different datasets that allow us to examine three different approaches to poverty: monetary and relative, material deprivation and lack of income. 

The objective of ensuring a decent quality of life for all citizens is sought through various programs of income guarantees or minimum income.

The debate about the possible introduction of a guaranteed basic income and the opportunity for it raises very different problems that go beyond the strictly financial ones, which, while being important, given the scarcity of public resources, are not the only ones to be addressed and, in no case, should they be exclusive.

Unemployment and precariousness are one of the major determinants of poverty in Spain and have been aggravated by the economic crisis of the last decade. The lack of resources threatens the food security of families who are forced to adopt purchasing strategies that lead to a reduction in the consumption of fresh food and an increase in refined and ultraprocessed products.