The committee is exploring the need to improve the employability of individuals experiencing high levels of multipledeprivation as a prerequisite to increasing sustainable economic growth.
The Indices of MultipleDeprivation (IMD) 2004 contain seven "domains of deprivation": Income, Employment, Health and Disability, Education skills and training, Barriers to Housing and Services, Living Environment, Crime.
Moreover, a liberal such as this reformed ex-rationalist might also argue, albeit while in the throes of sleep deprivation and having suffered from multiple starvation-induced hallucinations, that gift-giving is a social good because it tends to redistribute income from the top to the bottom.