The statutory adoption of a particular statistical definition of poverty is the product of Gordon Brown’s era of target setting. The emphasis on supposedly objective measures led to expenditures on schemes – notably the child tax credit – designed to be closely related to the target itself. That kind of distortion arises whenever a single metric is used to describe a multifaceted complex phenomenon such as the incidence of poverty.
戈登·布朗(Gordon Brown)喜欢设立目标,为贫困赋予某种统计学上的定义、并赋予这种定义法律地位,这正是布朗时代的产物。出于对这些据称十分客观的衡量标准的重视,制定计划、进而大笔支出便成为在所难免之事(尤其是像为儿童免税这样的计划),而之所以制定这些计划,则往往与目标本身紧密相关。当人们用单一的标准来评判一种复杂多面的现象(比如贫困)时,就会产生这种扭曲。
You need advisers who understand the numbers, but also advisers who understand the poor.
我们需要的顾问不仅要懂得数字,还要了解穷人。
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