Rethinking Income Support For The Working Poor
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Rethinking Income Support For The Working Poor
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Author : Evelyn Ganzglass
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Rethinking Income Support For The Working Poor written by Evelyn Ganzglass and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Public welfare categories.
Summary Poor Economics A Radical Rethinking Of The Way To Fight Global Poverty By Abhijit V Banerjee And Esther Duflo
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Author : Shortcut Edition
language : en
Publisher: Shortcut Edition
Release Date : 2021-06-11
Summary Poor Economics A Radical Rethinking Of The Way To Fight Global Poverty By Abhijit V Banerjee And Esther Duflo written by Shortcut Edition and has been published by Shortcut Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-11 with Business & Economics categories.
* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. As you read this summary, you will discover that beyond the traditional anti-poverty policies that have emerged over the past decades, there is another way of looking at situations. You will also discover that : the poor have little access to information; the poor take responsibility for too many aspects of their lives; they have no access to certain markets, such as credit, or at exorbitant prices; poor countries are not doomed to failure because they are poor; when a situation begins to improve, beliefs and certainties change. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo rely on field studies with NGOs, government officials, health workers, etc., to support their work. They propose a new vision of poverty and, above all, ways of fighting it, through limited experiments and ingenious solutions proven in the field. They present not one, but models, based on the idea that it is by understanding the livelihoods of the poorest that solutions can be found to help them out of poverty. *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!
Rethinking Poverty
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Author : Barry Knight
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2017-08-30
Rethinking Poverty written by Barry Knight and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-30 with Social Science categories.
This book calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing austerity, under-resourced organisations and a lack of social solidarity. Based on a research programme by the Webb Memorial Trust, a key theme is power which shows that the way forward is to increase people’s sense of agency in building the society that they want.
Poor Economics
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Author : Abhijit V. Banerjee
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2012-03-27
Poor Economics written by Abhijit V. Banerjee and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-27 with Business & Economics categories.
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. Called "marvelous, rewarding" by the Wall Street Journal, the book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.
The Development Trap
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Author : Adam D. Kiš
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-05
The Development Trap written by Adam D. Kiš and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-05 with Social Science categories.
A wave of optimism is sweeping through the international aid and development industry, championed by leaders such as Jeffrey Sachs and Jim Yong Kim, who believe that poverty eradication could be within our grasp. Yet in stark opposition come those who believe that all international development intervention is hegemonic, paternalistic, and neocolonialist and must be done away with. In this book, Adam D. Kiš argues for a middle ground. Poverty is an entrenched, intractable problem that will never be entirely eradicated. However, if we reorientate our objectives in line with realistic goals that improve the way that poverty is confronted on a smaller scale, we can still continue the fight for meaningful change. Using rigorous scholarship illustrated with vivid storytelling and personal anecdotes from fighting against poverty in the field, The Development Trap argues that we need to make progress against poverty on the micro, rather than the macro scale. Instead of shooting for a single overarching end of poverty, our goals must be modest and reachable. Poverty still won’t go away, on a macro scale, but it can go away for specific individuals - in fact, it already happens all the time. The Development Trap is a compelling account of the challenges of eradicating poverty, and the possibilities for meaningful change at a smaller scale. It will be perfect for international development professionals, students and scholars, and for those with a general interest in the future of aid and development.
Territories Of Poverty
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Author : Ananya Roy
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2015-11-15
Territories Of Poverty written by Ananya Roy and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-15 with Social Science categories.
Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people’s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty—whether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundations—as multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation.
Fighting Poverty Together
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Author : A. Karnani
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Fighting Poverty Together written by A. Karnani and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Business & Economics categories.
In this hard-hitting polemical Karnani demonstrates what is wrong with today's approaches to reducing poverty. He proposes an eclectic approach to poverty reduction that emphasizes the need for business, government and civil society to partner together to create employment opportunities for the poor.
Changing Poverty Changing Policies
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Author : Maria Cancian
language : en
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Release Date : 2009-08-27
Changing Poverty Changing Policies written by Maria Cancian and has been published by Russell Sage Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-27 with Business & Economics categories.
Poverty declined significantly in the decade after Lyndon Johnson's 1964 declaration of "War on Poverty." Dramatically increased federal funding for education and training programs, social security benefits, other income support programs, and a growing economy reduced poverty and raised expectations that income poverty could be eliminated within a generation. Yet the official poverty rate has never fallen below its 1973 level and remains higher than the rates in many other advanced economies. In this book, editors Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger and leading poverty researchers assess why the War on Poverty was not won and analyze the most promising strategies to reduce poverty in the twenty-first century economy. Changing Poverty, Changing Policies documents how economic, social, demographic, and public policy changes since the early 1970s have altered who is poor and where antipoverty initiatives have kept pace or fallen behind. Part I shows that little progress has been made in reducing poverty, except among the elderly, in the last three decades. The chapters examine how changing labor market opportunities for less-educated workers have increased their risk of poverty (Rebecca Blank), and how family structure changes (Maria Cancian and Deborah Reed) and immigration have affected poverty (Steven Raphael and Eugene Smolensky). Part II assesses the ways childhood poverty influences adult outcomes. Markus Jäntti finds that poor American children are more likely to be poor adults than are children in many other industrialized countries. Part III focuses on current antipoverty policies and possible alternatives. Jane Waldfogel demonstrates that policies in other countries—such as sick leave, subsidized child care, and schedule flexibility—help low-wage parents better balance work and family responsibilities. Part IV considers how rethinking and redefining poverty might take antipoverty policies in new directions. Mary Jo Bane assesses the politics of poverty since the 1996 welfare reform act. Robert Haveman argues that income-based poverty measures should be expanded, as they have been in Europe, to include social exclusion and multiple dimensions of material hardships. Changing Poverty, Changing Policies shows that thoughtful policy reforms can reduce poverty and promote opportunities for poor workers and their families. The authors' focus on pragmatic measures that have real possibilities of being implemented in the United States not only provides vital knowledge about what works but real hope for change.
Trends In Social Cohesion
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Author : Council of Europe
language : en
Publisher: Council of Europe
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Trends In Social Cohesion written by Council of Europe and has been published by Council of Europe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Annotation We are at a point in history where economic inequalities are more widespread each day. The situation of extreme poverty experienced by the majority of the populations in developing countries ("Third World" countries) often coincides with an absence of democracy and the violation of the most fundamental rights. But in so-called "First World" countries a non-negligible proportion of inhabitants also live in impoverished conditions (albeit mainly "relative" poverty) and are denied their rights. The European situation, which this publication aims to analyse, is painful: the entire continent is afflicted by increasing poverty and consequently by the erosion of living conditions and social conflicts.The economic and financial crisis has resulted in the loss of millions of jobs, and created job insecurity for many still working. Economic insecurity raises social tensions, aggravating xenophobia, for instance. Yet the economic and financial crisis could present a good opportunity to rethink the economic and social system as a whole. Indeed, poverty in modern societies has never been purely a question of lack of wealth. It is therefore urgent today to devise a new discourse on poverty. In pursuit of this goal, the Council of Europe is following up this publication in the framework of the project "Human rights of people experiencing poverty", co-financed by the European Commission.
Rethinking Approaches To Food Security And Poverty In Developing Economies
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Author : Sanjukta Das
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Rethinking Approaches To Food Security And Poverty In Developing Economies written by Sanjukta Das and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
A significant amount of redistribution takes place through food security programs in developing countries. Yet, the role played by these policies in poverty alleviation has been largely ignored, especially in empirical economics. In my dissertation, I study the need for and the ideal design of a food security policy in the context of poverty alleviation in developing countries. Specifically, I analyze the following questions - Should food security legislation follow a targeted approach or aim for universalization? How do in-kind transfer programs compare with cash transfer programs? What aids or hinders the working of these programs? These questions have been relatively untouched in the literature. The objective and motivation of my dissertation is to ll these gaps in the literature. In answer to my first question, I find that a more universal approach to food security is more successful in poverty reduction, and the driving force behind the welfare benefits under a universal system is lower Type I errors. Households use the food subsidy to make various types of risk averse investments, all of which protect them in contingencies and reduce their vulnerability to poverty. They also increase their labor supply in their primary occupation and reduce the number of casual jobs they take up, thereby reducing variability in income and making them less vulnerable to poverty. These results indicate, that not only are food security measures sufficient for poverty alleviation, but a more universal approach is more effective, at least in the context of developing countries. In answer to my second question, I find that cash transfers are more successful in poverty reduction for conditional food security programs. Contrary to previous research, cash transfers have no significant impact on prices, but marginally raise consumption of temptation goods. This indicates that a combination of food and cash transfer implementation of a food security program has considerable appeal. In answer to my third question, I find that effectiveness of a food security measure in pushing an economy out of a poverty trap depends critically on the level of infrastructure in an economy. While raising the subsistence level of food is necessary, it is not sufficient, for the economy to get to a high-income equilibrium. My model indicates that foreign aid would be most effective in eliminating a poverty trap as there wouldn't be the detrimental effect of increased taxation on savings. If taken seriously, the results of this dissertation would justify expanding the reach of food security measures as a necessary means of income support and social protection for the poor in developing countries.