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When Martin Hirsch wants to hide poverty

Inflation, rising prices, financial crisis, the approach of a recession some of France, in short, things are looking bad for the French.

In fact, we now know for months, the purchasing power of the French is in free fall, notably including a price increase of 3.2% over one year. The balance sheet looks so gloomy, wages that are stagnating or falling, the commodities who need only increase, which measures only exacerbate an already critical situation, and the icing on the cake a financial crisis that does not seem to finish.

However, it seems as noted by the Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), ATD Quart Monde, Martin Hirsch, the solution is found to decrease - in statistics - the number of people living below the of poverty. Thus, with the application of this new indicator [1], we would find nothing more than a drop of more than 20% of these people. This hocus-pocus statistics can only make us doubt relevance even this indicator. Moreover, can we not see here an avatar to show the effects of Revenue de Solidarité Active? However, many economists including Liem Hoang-Ngoc [2] question the very system of RSA.

In sum, we can not deny the progress of the idea of the Fourth World. Poverty is not a phenomenon restricted to the only country in the developing world. Moreover, according to the latest figures, there would be more than 7 million people considered poor France.

It seems then that the introduction of this new indicator is a smokescreen in order to veil a reality, however real. However, it is clear that the current test measuring poverty should evolve. For this, the Fourth World NGO TD-recommends to take into account other measures such as "access to care, housing, employment, education training ...".

Notes:

[1] This new indicator proposed by Hirsch disconnects the evolution of the poverty line of evolution the median income. However, when the median income increases, the poverty line, ie, say 60% of the median, moved in the same proportion.

[2] Liem Hoang-Ngoc is an economist, professor at the University Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) and researcher at the CNRS. Sarkonomics his book, published by Grasset, assumes the ten key points of doctrine Sarkozyist in economics.