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This page lists resources relevant to income distribution both in Australia and overseas. Teachers looking for gini co effcients can download them from the ABS site. They are in Household Income and Distribution Australia CAT No 6523.0. Teachers will also find them in the yearbook and the results of new ABS surveys on wealth.
Welcome to the Australian Bureau of Statistics The Bureaus site always contains household stats and other material relevant to Income Distribution in Australia.Teachers will find much information on Income and Poverty in Australia in the current year book and the new ABS publications Measures of Australia's progress. These are available online.
Brotherhood of St Lawrence Poverty and Unemployment updates from this site are extremely useful in the classroom.
The Smith Family much of the research available on this site is relevant to the course.
ACOSS ACOSS press releases and their stat section are useful classroom resources.
Australian Institute of Criminology Who says the economy does not affect you? AIC frequently publishes data on crime and income and often briefing papers on topical blackmarket issues. Currently the site has stats and papers on cybercrimes.
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra NATSEM's newsletter and other online resources usually have the latest data on distribution available.
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research Press releases from this site on welfare and distribution issues are often handy classroom resources.
Luxembourg Income Study is also accessible through |Center for Policy Research Index These sites carry international data which allows comparisons and they usually have Gini co efficients. The study has also started to examine differences in the wealth holdings of individuals between countries.
World Bank Poverty Net Home: Resources
Worldbank Data Query Service , World Bank Country Data and Nationmaster. These sites especially Nationmaster offer current country rankings on a wide range of economic indicators inlcuding income inequality. The world bank data query service covers the globe and is a fabulous source of internationally comparative data for teachers.
Economic Growth Research Home Page(WLD Bank) Super readings from some of the world's most significant economist on Modern Growth Theory.
United Nations CyberSchoolBus Site carries heaps of data and comment which allows international comparisons and useful for most students.
University of Texas Inequality Project Terrific statistics available from here and a good entry point into international resources on poverty.
Oneworld.net A link to highly useful articles and resources on poverty worldwide.
The HungerWeb A gateway to Aid organisations and sites dealing with poverty in less well developed economies.
United for a Fair Economy Socially critical site dealing mainly with the US, but often good materials their.
Eldis gateway to Information on development Useful if you can't locate a relevant resource.
Penn world data tables Useful source of data for international comparisions.
The following web resources contain information on income distributional and related issues in Australia.
The Australian Bureau of StatisticsThis site offers a wide range of statistics related to Income distribution. Average Weekly earnings and current company profit figures can all be found here. Occaisonally when the Bureau's report on Income Distribution is updated Gini Co efficient tables may be found in the section on Income and Welfare in the Current Year Book. Usually when a new Income Distribution survey is undertaken the ABS will produce a special article on it. Special Article - Poverty and Deprivation in Australia (Year Book Australia, 1996) The ABS's Household income survey is also available in part online.
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra NATSEM publishes many of its working, conference papers and presentations online. Its major report on income distribution is only available to subscribers however many useful statistics can be gleaned quite quickly from its publications and often summaries of recent findings may be found in its news letter.
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research From the Insitute of Applied Economic and Social Research at Melbourne University offers a social monitor to subscribers which contains a great deal of current material relevant to income distribution. Further the Insitute's press releases and working papers frequently contain current material on this topic.
The Brotherhood of St Lawrence The Brotherhoods poverty and unemployment fact sheets as well as a host of related publications are available for download from the Publications section of their site. Teachers should also inspect BSL campaign material and their journal. These usually contain statistics and comment pertinent to inequality in Australia.
ACOSS The website of the Australian Council of Social Services offers a lot of current information on poverty in Australia. Eg Of particular interest to teachers will be the various position papers and newsletters which offer an alternative persspective on current issues and ACOSS press releases are juicy items for anyone studying poverty and related issues in Australia.
COSNET This is a directory of all the community sector organisations in Australia and an excellent starting point for anyone researching issues related to income inequality in Australia.
The Smith Family This site offers current comment on poverty, unemployment and welfare issues in Australia inlcuding youth unemployment.
Dusseldorp Skills Forum Heaps of material on youth labour market issues for young people. This site is particularly useful for students looking for polcies that might reduce youth unemployment.
The InfoXchange A website focusing on a wide range of issues related to young people inlcuding poverty.
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF FAMILY STUDIES (AIFS)..This site carries papers and some statistics on Income Distribution Issues and Australian Families. The materail here is relevant for students who are focusing on poverty.
Social Policy Research Centre This Centre at the University of New South Wales carries a range of working papers on welfare issues which may be of interest to tecahers. In all likelihood they are too complex for students.
The following Government departments also carry a range of fact sheets, statistics, press releases and current comment on the economic fortunes of particulart groups in ouur society. | Department of Family & Community Services - W...| | Aged And Community Care: see department of health| AIHW Website Australian Insitute of Health and Welfare carries a statistical database of the incidence of disease ect which can be related to income. | Department of Family & Community Services -| This site offers a lot of material on the welfare sector which can prove useful when focusing on Distribution and it's impact.
Australian Institute of Criminology This site carries a wide range of information on crime in Australia. Of particular interest to economic educators will be the sections carrying data on profiles of criminals. There is a clear relationship between income level and participation in crime.Teachers wishing to explore other social issues such as car theft and insurance related matters will find many useful stats here and many interesting issues such as the social cost of poverty and the opportunity costs involved etc. The site is kept up to date and hence when black market issues arise in the popular press it often carries the appropriate stats.
The Salvation Army in Australia This site carries a wide range of papers dealing with Social Justice issues from a Catholic perspective. Details of the Councils positions and activities can be veiwed here as well the Council attitiudes to current issues; such as the GST etc are accessible online.
Ted Noffs Foundation This site details the activities of the Foundations attempts to combat drug problems and carries an useful collection of online articles on this matter.
ACSJC - Australian Catholic Social Justice Council This site carries a wide range of papers dealing with Social Justice issues from a Catholic perspective. Details of the Councils positions and activities can be veiwed here as well the Council attitiudes to current issues; such as the GST etc are accessible online.
The sites in this section deal with the circumstances of people who do not have aplace to live. Students studying the property market may find much material useful especially if you are examining market failure.
Council to Homeless Persons Australia This site contains a great deal of material on youth Homelessness, profiiles, statistics and an analysis of the causes of youth Homelessness. It offers a good driectory of links to other organisations dealing with Homelessnesses and a useful list of publications in this area.
AFHO - The Australian Federation of Homelessness Organisations This site is a gateway for Internet resources dealing with the problem of Homelessness in Australia. It carries updates, responses to Government policy and an excellent directory of links on this subject.
The Community Housing Federation of Australia This site is an industry portal and carries web resources and papers on housing in Australia. The web directory is useful for people studying the housing market in Australia.
National Community Housing Forum Australia The forum maintians a newsletter accesible online which carries comment on current iissues in this area. The site outlines the forum's policies and carries a section with links to current research in this area.
Community Housing nsw This web site carries a good issues section outlining current responses to Government policy in this area and covering a wide range of related issues such as the GST, residential rents ect.
Shelter NSW This site offers excellent up to date media releases on Housing and the Olympics as well as the GST. It carries a good publications section some of which can be downloaded.
National Coalition for the Homeless US This site is a gateway to US resources on Homelessness in the US and useful for students who wish to compare Australia's performance in this area to other countries.
Shelter: The National Campaign for Homeless P...UK This is a gateway to web based resources in the UK dealing with Homelessness and is once again useful for students who wish to make international comparisions.
Aged And Community Care This site is designed to meet the needs of older Australians. It offers some excellent resources in the press release section outining the responses of older Australians to Government policies and an excellent set of downloadable discussion papers covering a wide range of issues relevant to this group. Eg the employment prospects of mature Australians. The site also carries information on both cost to consmers and producers of buying and providing community care.
National Ageing Research Institute - Home This site is a medical research insitute at Melbourne University which offers details of centre's programs as well some useful links into the medical aspects of aging.
Council on the Ageing - Welcome! This site offers a vast array of information relevant to the economics of aging. Responses to Government policies including tax reform and budget analyses can be found here. A paper on the myths applied to older workers also makes curious reading. The site offers access to a journal which carries current commentary on issues in these area's as well speeches and articles written by Council members. This site also offers an excellent directory of resources on Ageing in the Internet.
Australian Department of Health and Aging Details of the Federal Governments policies to cope with the care of older Australians, fact sheets and a great set of links to sites relevant to older Australians.
This UN site offers heaps of resources on the plight of older people all over the world. try in particular the resources accessible at the UN Social Development Index.
CAEPR Home Page Centre for Aboriginal and Economic Policy Research site contains working papers, issues briefs and other material on the economic fortunes of indigenous peoples. These cover indigenous poverty, disadvantage ,homelessness and other related issues.
The Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs This site carries details of Current Government policies in this area and an useful online phamphlet debunking some of the myths surrounding indigenous people. It also carries a good set of links.
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation This site outlines the need for reconciliation. The reconciliation program and contains some resources which relate to indigenous social and economic disadvantage.
Torres Strait Regional Authority This resource is the working web site for the authority. It describes the authorities role and contains media releases as well as a newsletter in pdf format which relates the current concerns and activities of the authority.
AIATSIS - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies This web site carries a very useful list of CD's, Films and books which are relevant to the culture, history and fortunes of Aboriginal Australians. It also offers some discussions papers which are available for inspection online.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Page This site offers a comprehensive list of resources on aboriginal studies.
National Native Title Tribunal The native title Tribunal offers fact sheets explaining Native title; what is it, who is affected, details of agreements and outlines the role and functions of the tribunal.
Australian Insitute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies This site offers news briefs, working papers and issues briefs focusing mainly on Native Title Issues.
NATSIEW - National Aboriginal and Torres Stra...a This site offers some excellent resources for teachers and students on Aboriginal Australians. It contains a searchable database of resources covering the full range of economic issues as they affect Aboriginal Australians.
The KooriNet Home Page This site offers an excellent directory of Koori resources which are available online.
Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission The Commissions web site contains a special section dealing with discrimination against and statistics on the economic disadvantage of indigenous people.
Aboriginal Studies WWW VL The World Wide Virtual libraries collection of web resources dealing with Aboriginal Australians.
Australasian Legal Information Institute This site offers a gateway to Australian web resources on Aboriginal people.Aboriginal Affairs Victoria State based department dealing with issues faced by indigenous peoples.
Aboriginal Housing Board Of Victoria - Welcome! Outlines local measures to provide housing for indigenous people.
SalariesReview.com This site offers surveys of salaries and the cost of living in Australia, the US, Uk and Canada. Users can purchase reports for about $30 AUD.
Ecomp Executive Compensation Database This site offers a searchable database of executive salaries to subscribers.
The real Bill Gates Page Love him or hate does do some good things.Try the Bill Gates Foundation and see the Grants MS makes.
Literature of Poverty: A CollectionPoverty Net home from the world bank. A comprehensive collection of resources on global poverty.
Luxemborg Income Study The contents of this site change in unpredictable ways however in the past one could access fairly current tables of Gini Co efficients by countries from Luxemborg. This data can also database be accessed from the page containing a list of the Universities at Center for Policy Research. This site also contains interesting papers on population and social econimcs issues. Generally these are too difficult for most students.
WIID Gini Coefficient This data runs up to the year 2000, however Gini Co efficients are available for a wide selection of countries. Teachers may find the World Bank Development Indicators offers a better service however it costs $USD100 pa.
World Bank Poverty Net Home: Resources
The world bank offers a great deal of material on Poverty tecahers might try or Inequality, Poverty and Socio-Economic Performance or Poverty in Africa| A Better World for All A world Bank Special on poverty reduction and links to resources.LSMS: The World Bank's Living Standards Measures...includes household survey datasets from all over the world.World Bank Journals Home PageSearch and download articles often useful for statistics on transition economies and some on income distribution matters. For excellent resources dealing with Economic Growth at the World Bank go Economic Growth Research Home PageCheck The World Bank Group--World Development IndicatorsWorld Development Indicators Online
United Nations CyberSchoolBus A great resource allowing international comparisions of countries by income and other measures.These sites focus on Child income and welfare issues Project materials designed for school children are also available
Welcome to UNICEF Great deal of material on the world's children. heaps on child labour and other issues and try CROP and Innocenti Research Centre for more data on child exploitation issues.
.COMPARATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON POVERTY Center for Comparative Research on Poverty Unesco; a ton of world poverty links all organised into one site
Institute for Research on Poverty This Insitute from the University of Wisconsin focuses on US poverty however the resources section covers links from all over the world and is a useful resource for locating global resources on world poverty.
WHO/OMS: World Health Organization The World Health Organisation publishes it's World heath report online as well as its newsletter and heaps of other information on disease throughout the globe. In these documents there are many analyses of health related issues compared to socio economic status for a range of countries and an medical perspective on standard of living and quality of life issues.
Oneworld.net OneWorld is a mine of information on a vast range of information relating to social issues and economics. One World has set up the Learning Channel and this site offers current resources on Global Development issues. One world frequently produces guides on world poverty although from time to time they be removed for improvements.
Overseas Development Institute - Home Page This site offers a world poverty briefing, working papers and documents relating to world poverty, International Economic Development and useful links to related networks of similar sites. It also provides assessments of the effectiveness of various humantiarian aid programs and an interesting section carrying material on the effectiveness of public policy and poverty reduction. The Insitute is based in the UK and may prove more useful to teachers than to students.
Social Disadvantage Research Group Home Page This site from Oxford University offers an excellent of links and resources for teachers investigating UK poverty. Too hard for most students.
University of Texas Inequality Project This is one the best Income Inequality sites on the Net and includes a few student friendly resources. It maintians an World inequality watch page and allows users to download data sets including Gini Co effecients for a wide range of countries. It maintains data on income inequlaity within countries and inequality between countries. There are some excellent current working papers here which will be of interest to teachers focusing on Economies in tranistion among other things.
Welcome to the Institute of Development Studies This site is notable for it's newsletter which although UK based carries interesting and accessible articles on a range of matters relating to Poverty. Eg Similarities in working conditions of garment workers across the world.
The HungerWeb This site offers educational resources, briefings, news, upadates and working papers on efforts to elminate Hunger world wide. It is also a gateway to Hunger resources on the Net.
PRAXIS:Economic development gateway PRAXIS, the international development homepage of Prof. Richard J. Estes of the University of Pennsylvania. PRAXIS provides access to a vast array of archival resources on international and comparative social development. The aim of PRAXIS is the promotion of positive social change through informed action. PRAXIS maintains guides on poverty disadvanategd people's and a Host of resources relevant to economic development.
Inter-American Development Bank Home Page Ban... The IADB was created in response to a long standing desire on the part of the Latin American nations for a development institution that would focus on the pressing problems of the region. The IADB carries profiles of programs in the regions. Policies and statistics as well as a host of papers on issues related to economic development in this part of the world.
Development Centre - Home page Selected readings and data on Economic development and Income distribution from the OECD. See papers on Global Inequality Conference
Eldis gateway to Information on development This is an Economic Mega development super site. It has searchable database which trawls the Net for documents and resources by country for a vast range of resources relevant to poverty and other development issues.
International Data Base (IDB) This link takes you to the International section of the US Bureau of Census and statistics which offers some stats on demography and poverty for a few countries.
Bretton Woods Project - welcome Bretton Woods Project was established by a network of UK NGOs to monitor the World Bank and IMF. The Project's reports and bi-monthly bulletin Bretton Woods Update aim to clarify current issues and provide links to campaigners and researchers worldwide. Here teachers will find critical comment on the activities of the IMF and World Bank :some of which is relevant to poverty reduction.
Social Policy Research Centre The Social Policy Research Centre is a research centre of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. The SPRC conducts research and fosters discussion on all aspects of social policy in Australia. Teachers will find many of the topical working and discussion papers relevant to many aspects of Income Distribution and Poverty in Australia.
ANU Centre for Economic Policy Research This site carries a range of working papers on distributional issues of current significance and interest to teachers. Teachers should note that while these papers are too hard for stduents, teachers will find excellent material here on the more economic aspects of distributional debates neglected in the media. The paper on private versus public schools is a must read for any Government school economics teacher.
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra NATSEM collects data on the impact of Government policy on Australian households. The results of it's research are frequently quoted in the press. The site offers a newsletter and some free papers. Subscribers can access some of the best publications in this area in Australia.
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research The working paper section of this site offers heaps of material on current distributional issues. Students will find some of this is covered in the press release section, however subscribers to the Social Monitor are treated to a feast of relevant data and comment on Australia.
The Centre for Independent Studies This site is an australian free market think tank that regularly carries comment on its web site about distributional issues in Australia. The site also offers and excellent set of web links to other similar think tanks around the world.
The Australian Industry Group The AIG occaisonally publish papers on social policy and offer a business perspective on these issues.
The Institute of Public Affairs Homepage This an Australian focused think tank site that offers occaisonal comment on distributional issues.
CEDA The Committee for the Economic Development of Australia also occaisonal Comment on this issues.
ACOSS The website of the Australian Council of Social Services offers a lot of current information on poverty including excerpts from it's magazine and other papers and press releases which outline ACCOSS's position on lots of current distributional debates. This site focuses on poverty in first world countries and carries evaluations of poverty reduction programs as well as current stats on poverty worldwide.
Labor Net This web site is an online guide to Union and Labour organizations on the Net. It also contains links to all the main Labour Think Tanks. They frequently contain plain language discussions of distributional issues. Some useful examples are listed below
JUSTICE ACTION - Australia | Social Change Net | These two sites carry links to progressive resources providing critical comment on distributional issues in Australia.
unistudent.com.au University student site which often carries critical comment and material on student poverty.
Australian Business Home| Business Council of Australia | The Australian Business Foundation |These sites offer current economic commentary often carry papers and material which relates current policy debates over distributional issues in Australia.
CROP This centres undertakes research into public policy and social welfare issues. A newsletter and various working papers are available. The material focuses on the impact of policy on disadvantaged Britons.
The World Bank The World Bank offers heaps of material and resources on poverty world wide and it's team of economists regularly publishes evaluations of it's programs online.
University of Texas Inequality Project This offers a collection of up to date readings and working papers ect which focus on US and global poverty issues. Analysis of the effectiveness of various policy approaches cab be found here. An excellent site.
IGC Internet's Progressive Gateway Highly suitable for students. A free market site which offers current news paper articles and commentary on a wide range of current economic issues. Occasionally articles will appear relevant to distribution.
United for a Fair Economy This site offer a gateway to progressive or left leaning resources on the Net dealing with poverty. It focuses mainly on the US but the arguments often have global relevance. Fair Economy regularly contains topical articles relevant to the classroom on distributional issues. For example the Government's role in the rise of Microsoft and Google.
The Brookings Institution: Main Home Page This is another free market think tank. Many of it's publications can be down loaded online including articles which comment on distributional issues and social policy. This site offers current economic commentary from some of the world's most distinguished economists on a wide range issues. Frequently Brookings publishes online research studies and briefs on the size of Government and various views on the effectiveness of poverty reduction programs and welfare programs in the states.
oneworld.net This site offers commentary on current economic issues and frequently will offer analysis of current issues directly relevant to distribution.
The Labour Economics Gateway This site offers links to labour economists, working papers and datasets. These often relate to distribution across the globe in particular as it relates to low paid workers.
International Labour Organisation This site often carries papers and articles on worker exploitation across the globe and material on poverty which relates directly to Income Distribution.
Centre for Policy Studies This UK think tank offers a range of material on current issues in the UK. The site frequently carries articles on the plight of disadvantaged groups and distributional issues.
The IEA Institute of Economic Affairs UK is a free market think tank which offer comment and analysis on current economic issues in the UK including labour relations and welfare reform.
Pacific Research Institute US Free market think tank, which offers commentary on any and every economic issue imaginable. It is a free enterprise site however many of the views on education and welfare have broader applicability
Inequality and growth Nuffield College Oxford;inlcudes online and offline references. More relevant for teachers who wish to keep abreast of modern debates than students.
This section offers links to resources which are themselves collections of Internet resources related in one way or another to income distribution and related area's. In some cases resources have been included because they offer excellent sub directories of links to other usefyul resources on the Net in this area.
Links - Australian Institute of Family Studie...
Australasian Legal Information Institute
Department of Family & Community Services Here you need to browse by section to find related web sites.
Eldis gateway to Information on development
COMPARATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON POVERTY
IGC Internet's Progressive Gateway
Idealist HomeA gateway to non profit insitutions and volunteer organisations on the web.
INEQUALITY.ORG This site offers commentary stats and analysis on current distributional and welfare issues in the states.
Institute for Research on Poverty Statistics, details of poverty measurement and Gini Co efficient can all be accessed from this site as well as analysis of current Government policy in the states.
Income Inequality Historical and other data from the US Census Bureau on poverty in America. Usually available.
Joint Center for Poverty Research: Home Page This sites carries a classroom section and focuses on a broad range of welfare issues. It carries papers and briefs on Child Poverty, rural poverty, a poverty Research news newsletter and many interesting position papers on welfare reform.
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research This is a fantastic site which carries a broad range of material on current economic issues in the states generally. Many of the book reviews and contents of the societies newsletter teachers will find particularly interesting. It publishes poverty analyses and analyses of welfare policy in the states as well.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Carries lots of reports analysing the Impact of Budget priorities on middle, and low income earners .
OMB Watch Home Page Site which looks at the US Budget from socially critical point of view . It tracks the surplus, US Government legislation and poses boiling questions such as "Who should benefit from the surplus ?"
TCF Online. Policy in Perspective. The Century Foundation undertakes analysis of contemporay social and economic issues in the States. A section of it's web site is devoted to income inequality and carries many interesting articles. Users need however to pay to download them.
United for a Fair Economy This site contains heaps of stats resources and articles on income inequality in the US.
University of Texas Inequality Project This site has a global focus however much data and commentary in distribution in the states can be accessed here.
REASON Online: Home of REASON Magazine (REASO. US Current Affairs magazine which offers comment on a broad range of issues and occasionally covers issues related to tax and distribution.