Public Spending and the Poor (World Bank S.)
Does public spending help the poor? Are there ways--such as finer targeting--to improve the impact of public spending on the poor? These are the questions at the heart of the research reported in this volume. These are indeed important questions--public spending net of interest payments typically amounts to 20-25 percent of GNP and therefore has the potential to influence poverty significantly. Yet at the same time, demands on limited public resources are increasing, so getting more from less--a...
Living Low Paid: The Dark Side of Prosperous Australia
by Helen Masterman-Smith and Barbara Pocock
Summary - Dark Money (Dark Money: A Complete Summary - Book, Paperback, Audiobook, Audible, #1)
by Ez- Summary
Absolute Poverty and Global Justice (Law, Ethics and Economics)
Absolute poverty causes about one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease. Developing universalizable norms aimed at tackling absolute poverty and the complex and multilayered problems associated with it, this book considers the levels, trends and determinants of absolute poverty and global inequality. Examining whether much faster progress against absolute poverty is possible through reductions in national and global inequalitie...
Securing Our Future in a Global Economy (Asegur
by Serven & De Ferranti
En la decada de 1990 America Latina y el Caribe (ALC) comenzaron a resurgir de la decada perdida de 1980 despues de un esfuerzo sostenido de reforma por parte de los paises para mejorar el papel de las fuerzas del mercado y aumentar la integracion real y financiera de la region en la economia mundial. A pesar de esto, la percepcion de la inseguridad economica fue intensa en la region. Este informe evalua el alcance, las causas y los efectos de la inseguridad economica en ALC, e identifica las po...
Multidimensional Approach to Local Development and Poverty: Causes, Consequences, and Challenges Post COVID-19
The phenomenon of poverty, despite being aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is recurrent and very harmful in peripheral countries. There seems to be no single solution, as each country faces its specificities, requiring an immersion into its causes and consequences. Multidimensional Approach to Local Development and Poverty: Causes, Consequences, and Challenges Post COVID-19 discusses the results of research conducted on the multivariate causes of hunger and poverty and how the pandemic has ag...
The Invisible Poor (World Bank Country Study)
by Gabriel Demombynes and Dorte Verner
'The Invisible Poor' seeks to raise the profile of the rural poor in Argentina, promote dialogue on rural poverty issues, provide the best currently available information about rural poverty, and offer a basis for discussions on how to expand household survey data collection to rural areas. Most previous work has been based on case studies or one-time surveys in a few provinces and consequently has been of limited use for drawing conclusions about rural conditions overall in Argentina. Largely b...
Poverty and Welfare in Ireland 1838-1948
Research proves that the Housing First approach is more effective than traditional models at dramatically reducing homelessness among those with mental health and substance use disorders. This step-by-step manual provides a solid foundation for introducing the evidence-based Housing First approach--provide housing first, followed by supportive treatment services--into new locations, and evolving existing programs into those based on the ideals of the Pathways Model to End Homelessness. It guides...
Youth Unemployment and Job Precariousness
by David Cairns, Nuno de Almeida Alves, Ana Alexandre, and Augusta Correia
This book explores the relationship between youth labour market marginality and political participation, focusing on the example of Portugal and the role played by austerity policies in shaping patterns of activism. Through integrating primary and secondary empirical evidence with key ideas from classical and contemporary Sociology, the authors illustrate some of the key features of youth unemployment and job precariousness, also highlighting trends in formal and informal activist activities. Ce...
Close to one million people are unhoused in the United States today. Millions and millions are ill—housed - people living in shanties or leaky, mouldy trailers. And millions more are mis—housed - in houses that are abusive in their loneliness, forlorn and empty at so many levels. We can do something about it. Actually, it’s low hanging fruit, should we choose to do something; impossible, if we do not. And it’s essential, not only for the wellbeing of the individual, but also for the wellbeing of...
FOREWORD INDIES FINALIST — POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS SILVER MEDALIST — SOCIAL CHANGE & SOCIAL JUSTICE ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD 1ST RUNNER UP — CULTURE & MONTAIGNE MEDAL NOMINEE "A valuable resource in the fight against poverty." —Publishers Weekly "An exploration of why so many Americans are struggling financially . . . A down-to-earth overview of the causes and effects of poverty and possible remedies." —Kirkus Reviews Water. Food. Housing. The most basic and cr...
Making it Happen
Poor Relief and Community in Hadleigh, Suffolk 1547-1600
As Americans experiment with dismantling the nation's welfare system, clichés and slogans proliferate, ranging from charges that the poor are simply lazy to claims that existing antipoverty programs have failed completely. In this impeccably researched book, Rebecca Blank provides the definitive antidote to the scapegoating, guesswork, and outright misinformation of today's welfare debates. Demonstrating that government aid has been far more effective than most people think, she also explains th...