A Study on Poverty Profiling in Korea: World Bank Contract Project

Table Of Contents: I . Introduction (Bark sunil) 9

Il. The Living State of the Poor Households (Kang sung ho & Bark sunil) 11
l. General Characteristics of Low-income Households 11
2. Income and Expenditure Characteristics 13
3. Actual Condition of Housing 16
4. Actual Condition of Education 21
5. Actual Condition of Health Care and Medical Service 23
6. Economic Activities 26

III. The social and cultural characteristics (Park neung hoo) 31
1. Subjective Estimate on Poverty 31
2. The Characteristics of the Region where TI1ese Poor People Live 33
3. Social activitive 35

Ⅳ. The trend of pove1ty incidence and poverty level (Bark sunil) 39
1. Rapid Increase in Poverty Rate 39

V. The Causes of Poverty and their contribution (Bark sunil & Kang sung ho) 55

Ⅵ. The Impact of The Economic Crisis in 1.997 to Pove1ty (Bark sunil) 67
1. Expansion of income disparity 67
2. The Impact of The Crisis on individual living, region, and social classes 69

VII. The Prospects of Emerging From Poverty Trap (Park neung hoo) 72

VIlI. The appraisals on social safety programs (Bark sunil & Kang sung ho) 73
1. The method of selecting basic livelihood protection group and its problems 73
2. Welfare needs of the poor and the target range for the National Basic Livelihood Protection 83
3. Targets for the public welfare and their needs 99
4. Strong needs for the integrative service of basic livelihood and work 104

References 109

KIHASA Research Subject Classification: Income protection > Public income assistance

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