Author: Patricia RugglesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Transitions in and Out of Poverty
Author: Patricia RugglesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty
Author: Philip N. JeffersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195393783
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
This Handbook examines poverty measurement, anti-poverty policy and programs, and poverty theory from the perspective of economics. It is written in a highly accessible style that encourages critical thinking about poverty. What's known about the sources of poverty and its alleviation are summarized and conventional thinking about poverty is challenged.
Transitions Out of Poverty
Author: Gemma ThomasPathways Out of Poverty
Author: Gary S. FieldsPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821354049
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
How private firms contribute to economic mobility and poverty reduction and what governments can do to enhance their contributions is the theme of this book. The positive role (often underemphasized) the private sector plays in economic development is looked at. Also the labour market and how various mechanisms in the economy interact to affect conditions for people as workers and as consumers. The links among the business environment, private sector development, economic growth, poverty reduction and economic mobility are also examined.
Jobs and Transitions Out of Poverty
Author: Gabriela InchaustePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Moving Out of Poverty
Author: Deepa NarayanPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821381121
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
There is no peace with hunger. Only promises and promises and no fulfillment. If there is no job, there is no peace. If there is nothing to cook in the pot, there is no peace. - Oscar, a 57-year-old man, El Gorri n, Colombia They want to construct their houses near the road, and they cannot do that if they do not have peace with their enemies. So peace and the road have developed a symbiotic relation. One cannot live without the other. . . . - A community leader from a conflict-affected community on the island of Mindanao, Philippines Most conflict studies focus on the national level, but this volume focuses on the community level. It explores how communities experience and recover from violent conflict, and the surprising opportunities that can emerge for poor people to move out of poverty in these harsh contexts. 'Rising from the Ashes of Conflict' reveals how poor people s mobility is shaped by local democracy, people s associations, aid strategies, and the local economic environment in over 100 communities in seven conflict-affected countries, including Afghanistan. The findings suggest the need to rethink postconflict development assistance. This is the fourth volume in a series derived from the Moving Out of Poverty study, which explores mobility from the perspectives of poor people in more than 500 communities across 15 countries.
Poverty to Wealth Transition
Author: Miranda Garcia AKA The Money QueenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Have you ever wondered what's the point of life? How to live a fulfilling lifestyle or maybe why stuff just doesn't work for you in your favor? Do you sometimes feel depressed, overwhelmed or just drained from life itself? Maybe you know someone else who does. Either way this is a great book for you. Whether in poverty or not. This book will help to align a better you for a better life view. The content added in this publication. Is very powerful and should only be used for good intentions only! If you are ready to change your life then you have to check out this guide. You won't find anything else like it. Created from decades and decades of research experience and existing content from some of the wealthiest and most successful people in the world. This book will have you thinking and will help put you in gear! learn more visit us at https://UNMOnlineSystems.Thinkific.com
Transition from Poverty
Author: Amy AllenPoverty in Transition Economies
Author: Sandra HuttonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134693427
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This study addresses the experience of, and responses to poverty in a range of transition economies including Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia, Uzbekistan, Romania, Albania and Macedonia. It covers topics such as the definition of poverty lines and the measurement of poverty; the role of income-in-kind in supporting families; homelessness and destitution; housing; the design, targeting and administration of welfare; and personal responses to economic transition.
Poverty and the Economic Transition
Author: Peter LanjouwPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Ajuste estructural
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
November 1998 Has the economic transition in Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union been harder on pensioner households or on households containing children? Do per capita measures of welfare give a misleading picture? Much attention has been paid to the relative vulnerability of two well-defined household groups during the transition. Some observers argue that old-age pensioner households have been relatively protected because of a less steep decline in real pensions compared with wages in most transition economies. By contrast, households with young children are believed to have experienced a substantial decline in living standards under reform and show strikingly higher rates of measured poverty than pensioner households. But others argue that the elderly have suffered more than the young during the transition. Can these conflicting viewpoints about the relative poverty of old and young households be arbitrated? Lanjouw, Milanovic, and Paternostro show that strong (though implicit) assumptions underpin certain poverty comparisons. Notably, using a per capita measure of individual welfare assumes that there are no economies of scale in household consumption, in the sense that the per capita cost of reaching a specific level of welfare does not fall as household size increases. Relaxing that assumption could affect comparisons, showing higher poverty rates among the elderly because their households tend to be smaller than the households containing children. Even the nature of the transition has implications for economies of scale. The relative cost of housing and other goods and services with at least some public-good characteristics has risen rapidly. These relative price shifts hit small households particularly hard, because a greater share of their expenditures goes to public and quasi-public goods. But transition economies have also experienced big increases in the relative prices of goods and services consumed largely by children, such as kindergarten and other education services. These increases affect younger households more. Since there is no accepted way to establish the true extent of economies of scale in a given country, the question can't be answered exactly. But clearly a small departure from a per capita measure may be enough in some cases to overturn the conventional relative ranking of poverty headcounts: poverty among the elderly may then turn out to be worse than among children. This paper-a product of Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to study changes in welfare and inequality during the transition. The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].