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Poverty, Social Exclusion and Neighbourhood: Studying the area bases of social exclusion Howard Glennerster Ruth Lupton Philip Noden Anne Power Contents A Brief History of Area Debates 1 The Case for a Another Look at Areas 7 The Distribution of Poor Areas 9 Selecting Poverty Areas 19 Identifying and Defining Poverty Areas 30 The Families Study 31 Concluding Thoughts 32 Next Steps 34 Appendix 1: Poverty Wards listed by Region and District 35 Appendix 2: ONS Classification of Local Authority Districts 42 References 43 CASEpaper Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion CASE/22 London School of Economics March 1999 Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE CASE enquiries: tel: 020 7955 6679 Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion The ESRC Research Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) was established in October 1997 with funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. It is located within the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and benefits from support from STICERD. It is directed by Howard Glennerster, John Hills, Kathleen Kiernan, Julian Le Grand, Anne Power and Carol Propper. Our Discussion Papers series is available free of charge. We also produce summaries of our research in CASEbriefs. To subsc