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Who Is Poor And Who Is Not Toward An Empirical Basis For Identifying The Poor
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Book Synopsis Who is Poor and who is Not? Toward an Empirical Basis for Identifying the Poor by : Charles Albert Plante
Download or read book Who is Poor and who is Not? Toward an Empirical Basis for Identifying the Poor written by Charles Albert Plante and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In “Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement” (1976), Amartya Sen defines the problem of identifying the poor as one of two that have to be addressed when we operationalize poverty. In this dissertation, I propose an innovative empirical approach to responding to this problem. My dissertation unfolds in four stages. First, I argue that an empirical approach to the identification problem is both desirable and possible. Second, I propose my own approach. Drawing on work in the basic needs tradition, I argue that experiencing poverty should result in the life trajectories of the poor looking different from those of the non-poor. Specifically, they should be uniquely vulnerable to suffering a cumulative negative dynamic in functioning over time, which I elect to call “deprivation.” Third, I model this dynamic and propose a method for using it to evaluate poverty indicators. Fourth, I estimate the dynamic in the United States and Canada using panel data on individual earnings and household income and dynamic panel data estimators. Then, I use these results to assess the relative poverty indicator most widely used in rich countries, known in Canada as the Low-Income Measure (LIM). I find that a household in the United States needs to command about 61% of median adjusted after-tax income and in Canada, 43%, to be able to protect themselves against deprivation. Broadly speaking, if we accept the theoretical arguments offered in this dissertation, then the LIM—which is defined at 50%—strikes a rough balance between these two empirical standards"--
Book Synopsis Identifying the Poor by : Graham Pyatt
Download or read book Identifying the Poor written by Graham Pyatt and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put the world today into context by learning about the past through this brief, best-selling Western Civilization text that has helped thousands of students succeed in the course. Jack Spielvogel's engaging style of writing weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. You will also be exposed to primary source documents--actual historical documents that are the foundation for the historical analysis you read in the chapter. These documents include letters, poems, and songs through history--documents that enliven the past. Throughout the book there are also helpful tools to help you digest the reading, including outlines, focus questions, chronologies, numerous maps, and boldface key terms with definitions.
Book Synopsis Identifying the Poor: Using Subjective and Consensual Measures by : Karel Van Den Bosch
Download or read book Identifying the Poor: Using Subjective and Consensual Measures written by Karel Van Den Bosch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: An investigation into the problem of identifying the poor and determining the poverty line. The book focuses on one particular approach to the issue, where survey respondents are asked for their views, and outlines the four variants in the approach: the consensual income method; the consensual standard of living method; the income evaluation method; and the income satisfaction method. The book contains an extensive and thorough review of the theoretical and empirical literature, as well as rigorous analysis of survey data from Belgium. The result is a conclusive assessment of the validity and usefulness of the subjective and consensual approaches to poverty measurement.
Book Synopsis The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945 by : Steven Serels
Download or read book The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945 written by Steven Serels and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Red Sea Littoral, currently divided between Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, is one of the poorest regions in the world. But the pastoralist communities indigenous to this region were not always poor—historically, they had access to a variety of resources that allowed them to prosper in the harsh, arid environment. This access was mediated by a robust moral economy of pastoralism that acted as a social safety net. Steven Serels charts the erosion of this moral economy, a slow-moving process that began during the Little Ice Age mega-drought of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continued through the devastating famines of the twentieth century. By examining mass sedentarization after the Second World War as merely the latest manifestation of an inter-generational environmental and economic crisis, this book offers an innovative lens for understanding poverty in northeastern Africa.
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Book Synopsis Communities in Action by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book Haitians written by Anthony V. Catanese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1981 I was asked by some DePauw University students to serve as faculty adviser for a group planning to work in rural Haiti during the nearly month-long interim term. I accepted the offer for several reasons. I had enjoyed being the faculty adviser for two previous work projects in Guatemala and Jamaica. I had found the experience was educationally valuable for undergraduates, and I could use it to enhance classroom learning during the semester. In addition, the experience of living and working in a radically different environment was intellectually stimulating for me as a social scientist interested in welfare economics. Finally, because such volunteer projects were rare in the early 1980s, I realized the opportunity should not be passed up. It was a chance to see a part of the world I had heard of but knew little or nothing about except from accounts found in newspaper and magazine articles.
Book Synopsis Development Studies, Volume 2 by : Ed. Robin Ghosh
Download or read book Development Studies, Volume 2 written by Ed. Robin Ghosh and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine by : Gary L Albrecht
Download or read book The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine written by Gary L Albrecht and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-04-21 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first international and inter-disciplinary social science Handbook on health and medicine. Five years in the making, and building on the insights and advice of an international editorial board, the book brings together world-class figures to provide an indispensable, comprehensive resource book on social science, health and medicine. Pinpointing the focal issues of research and debate in one volume, the material is organized into three sections: social and cultural frameworks of analysis; the experience of health and illness; and health care systems and practices. Each section consists of specially commissioned chapters designed to examine the vital conceptual and methodological practice and policy issues. Readers recei
Book Synopsis Non-tariff Barriers, Regionalism And Poverty: Essays In Applied International Trade Analysis by : L Alan Winters
Download or read book Non-tariff Barriers, Regionalism And Poverty: Essays In Applied International Trade Analysis written by L Alan Winters and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-Tariff Barriers, Regionalism and Poverty is a collection of key articles in three important areas of applied international trade research: measuring non-tariff barriers and their effects, the consequences of regional trading arrangements, especially on the countries excluded from them, and the connection between international trade and poverty. Drawing from 30 years of research and experience, L Alan Winters illustrates the development of techniques of this field and his continued commitment to answering real policy questions at the times at which they are debated. The collection shows the ways in which economic and econometric analysis can be used to answer real-world problems rigorously in the area of international trade and trade policy. Readers will find that some of the research included is of current methodological relevance and some of more historical significance. This volume is invaluable to anyone who is keen on developing their knowledge on trade policy, regionalism or poverty — three pressing issues in today's globalized world.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Child Psychology, Child Psychology in Practice by : William Damon
Download or read book Handbook of Child Psychology, Child Psychology in Practice written by William Damon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are compared. Updated and revised to reflect the new developments in the field, the Handbook of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication. Volume 4: Child Psychology in Practice, edited by K. Ann Renninger, Swarthmore College, and Irving E. Sigel, Educational Testing Service, covers child psychology in clinical and educational practice. New topics addressed include educational assessment and evaluation, character education, learning disabilities, mental retardation, media and popular culture, children's health and parenting.
Book Synopsis Tax Policy and the Economy by : James M. Poterba
Download or read book Tax Policy and the Economy written by James M. Poterba and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current issues in tax policy.
Book Synopsis Freedom from poverty as a human right: who owes what to the very poor? by : Pogge, Thomas
Download or read book Freedom from poverty as a human right: who owes what to the very poor? written by Pogge, Thomas and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents fifteen essays by academics about the severe poverty that afflicts billions of human lives. These essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent.
Book Synopsis Poverty in Transition and Transition in Poverty by : Yogesh Atal
Download or read book Poverty in Transition and Transition in Poverty written by Yogesh Atal and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty is an issue facing countries around the globe, yet it is a multi-dimensional phenomenon caused by a variety of factors, differing from context with no linear chain of cause and effect. The occurrence and persistence of poverty is influenced by an interrelated web of economic, social, psychological, cultural, and political factors. Focusing on countries-in-transition belonging to the former Soviet bloc where the existence of poverty was officially denied until the collapse of the Soviet Union, this volume examines the ways in which each country is dealing with its newly acknowledged and rapidly increasing poverty. The transition from socialism to democracy and market economies has proved more difficult and costly than anyone imagined. Scholars from the six countries examined here profile and evaluate current social policies and programs on poverty eradication and provide a comparative perspective that ensures that culturally specific solutions can be found in place of borrowed solutions from abroad - solutions which have thus far ignored the cultural factor and have thus failed to deliver.
Book Synopsis Peri-urban Water and Sanitation Services by : Mathew Kurian
Download or read book Peri-urban Water and Sanitation Services written by Mathew Kurian and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 2.6 billion people in the developing world lack access to safe water and sanitation service. The Millennium Development Goal’s (MDG) target is to halve the number of people without access to a sustainable source of water supply and connection to a sewer network by 2015. That target is unlikely to be met. If there is anything that can be learnt from European experience it is that institutional reform occurs incrementally when politically enfranchised urban populations perceive a threat to their material well-being due to contamination of water sources.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Social Security by : John Ditch
Download or read book Introduction to Social Security written by John Ditch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Security forms a major area of government policy and social expenditure. Government activity in this area impacts directly on all citizens, and consequently social security policy is the focus for much debate. People are affected by social security whether by funding it through taxation, or using it when claiming unemployment or other benefits. Introduction to Social Security is an up-to-date text on this important and complex social policy issue. It provides a second introduction for students of social policy and administration and includes contributions from some of the best known and most respected names in the field.
Book Synopsis Living With Dyslexia by : Barbara Riddick
Download or read book Living With Dyslexia written by Barbara Riddick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents first-hand accounts of what dyslexia means for children themselves, and for the people around them.
Book Synopsis Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics by : Gina Gustavsson
Download or read book Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics written by Gina Gustavsson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In current political debate, liberalism and nationalism are often portrayed as one another's enemies. In contrast liberal nationalists believe that the tolerance and relative openness of liberal societies depends on the unifying force of a shared national identity. This multidisciplinary book explores the different forms that national identities can take, as well as their political consequences, drawing not only on philosophy but also on political science andpsychology. It argues that a liberal national identity must be cultural, rather than ethnic or merely civic, and examines the challenges involved in integrating immigrants, dual nationals, and otherminorities into the national community.
