TacklingPovertyNZ: the nature of poverty in NZ and how to address it

Authors

  • Conal Smith

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v14i1.4760

Keywords:

Child poverty, McGuinness Institute, community experience, poverty cost, absolute poverty, hardship

Abstract

Poverty in New Zealand is one of the foremost challenges we face as a country. Child poverty rates remain persistently above rates in many other developed countries and well above the rates prevalent in New Zealand during the 1980s. Poverty is of particular concern in a number of parts of provincial New Zealand, where it coincides with high rates of drug dependency, poor health outcomes – reaching Third World standards in some areas – high crime and victimisation levels and multi-generational cycles of disadvantage (Ministry of Social Development, 2010; New Zealand Treasury, 2017a).

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Published

2018-03-15

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2018): Policy Quarterly

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Articles

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