(1) Research Seminar:
The State of Art of Measuring Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK and Japan
Programme
Venue: Meeting Room 4 & 5, IPSS, Tokyo
Time: January 6th, 2012 9:00～17:00
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9:00-9:15 — Welcome
Dr Nishimura, Director, IPSS
9:15-10:00 — Session 1
Masami Iwata, Japan Women's University:
Poverty and Social Exclusion in Japan —
An Overview from the 1990s and Recent Policy Responses
10:00-11:30 — Session 2: Inequality in Comparative Context
Danny Dorling, University of Sheffield:
Is Japan more equal than the UK?
Tomoki Nakaya, Ritsumeikan University:
Regional inequality in UK and Japan
11:30-12:00 — Lunch
12:00-13:30 — Session 3: Measuring PSE
David Gordon, University of Bristol:
Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK: The State of the Art
Jonathan Bradshaw, University of York:
Child Poverty and Social Exclusion
13:30-15:00 — Session 4: Comparing Socially Perceived Necessities
Christina Pantazis, University of Bristol:
The Necessities of Life in the UK
Aya Abe, IPSS:
Public Perception of Necessities in Japan →
15:00-15:30 — Break
15:30-17:00 — Session 5: Comparing Minimum Income Standards
Abigail Davis, Loughborough University:
Comparing Minimum Income Standards: MIS in the UK
18:00 — Welcome Dinner
Aya Abe
Aya K. Abe is the director of the Department of Empirical Social Security Research, the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (NIPSSR). She studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received an MA and a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Her main field of research is poverty, social exclusion, social security and public assistance. She is one of the leading researchers on poverty and inequality in Japan, especially with regard to children. She was awarded the Avon Award for Women in 2009, and the Nikkei Economic Literature Award in 2008 for her co-authored book Seikatu Hogo no Keizai Bunseki (Economics of Public Assistance, Tokyo University Press, 2008). She serves on numerous government committees. She was part of the Japanese research team for the project Political and Social Economy of Care (2006-2009), an international comparative research for The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development ( UNRISD). She is also a key research participant for "The National Survey on Social Security", "The Research on the Poverty and Inequality and Effects of Poverty Alleviation Policy" and "Research on National Minimum Standards of Health and Social Services".
Selected Recent Publications
"Social Exclusion in Contemporary Japan" Fukuhara, H. (eds.) Social Exclusion-Inclusion and Social Policy (Issues and Challenges of New Social Policy Series) (In Japanese), Horitsubunkasha (2007)
Child Poverty: Rethinking Fairness in Japan (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten (2008)
Economics of Public Assistance (in Japanese) with S. Kunieda, W.Suzuki and M.Hayashi, Tokyo University Press (2008)
"Deprivation and Earlier Disadvantages in Japan" Journal of Social Science Japan, Vol.13, No.1 (2010)
"The Changing Shape of the Care Diamond: The Case of Child and Elderly Care in Japan", Gender and Development Programme Paper No.9, UNRISD (2010)
"Poverty and Deprivation in Young and Old: A Comparative Study of Australia and Japan" (with Peter Saunders) Poverty and Public Policy, Vol.2, Issue 1, Article 5 (2010)
"The Myth of Egalitarian Society: Poverty and Social Exclusion in Japan" Saunders, Peter and Sainsbury, Roy (eds.) Social Security, Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rich and Poorer Countries, pp.175-199, Mortsel: Intersentia Publishing (2011)
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