Redrawing The Poverty Line

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book Redrawing the Poverty Line written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia Ruggles
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drawing the Line written by Patricia Ruggles and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US official poverty measures were adopted in the late 1960s and, even then, were based on data from the mid-1950s. This book argues for a reevaluation of the experts' consensus on where we draw the poverty line.

Author : Nanak Kakwani
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137583258
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Welfare Functions and Development written by Nanak Kakwani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanak Kakwani and Hyun Hwa Son make use of social welfare functions to derive indicators of development relevant to specific social objectives, such as poverty- and inequality-reduction. Arguing that the measurement of development cannot be value-free, the authors assert that if indicators of development are to have policy relevance, they must be assessed on the basis of the social objectives in question. This study develops indicators that are sensitive to both the level and the distribution of individuals’ capabilities. The idea of the social welfare function, defined in income space, is extended to the concept of the social well-being function, defined in capability space. Through empirical analysis from selected developing countries, with a particular focus on Brazil, the authors shape techniques appropriate to the analysis of development in different dimensions. The focus of this evidence-based policy analysis is to evaluate alternative policies affecting the capacities of people to enjoy a better life.

Author : Phil Gramm
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538190141
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of American Inequality written by Phil Gramm and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2022: Politics • Winner of the 2024 Hayek Book Prize, Manhattan Institute Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2022, The Myth of American Inequality demonstrates that the federal government egregiously overstates the degree of inequality and poverty in the world’s wealthiest nation. In doing so, the authors--a former United States senator, eminent economist, and a former senior leader at the Bureau of Labor Statistics-- challenge the prevailing consensus that income inequality is a growing threat to American society. Getting the facts straight reveals that the key measures of well-being are greater than the official statistics of the country would lead us to believe. Income inequality is lower today than at any time in post- World War II America. The facts reveal a very different and better America than the one that is currently described by policy advocates across much of the political spectrum. The updated edition brings will challenge political debate throughout the 2024 election season and provide clear and convincing evidence that the American Dream is alive and well.

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Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Security Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Trudi J. Renwick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000525228
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty And Single Parent Families written by Trudi J. Renwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. In August 1996 Congress passed welfare reform legislation designed to "end welfare as we know it." The people most affected by this radical transformation of the public assistance system are families headed by single parents. The authors states that unfortunately, misinformation regarding single parent families is widespread. Too often public policy, such as the 1996 welfare reform, has been based on stereotypes and misperceptions rather than facts. The primary objective was to show how the official measures of poverty underestimate the extent of material hardship in single parent families. The facts, as developed in this book, show that for most single parent families income from employment is not sufficient to support a decent standard of living

Author : Erdem Yoruk
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472902822
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey written by Erdem Yoruk and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey, author Erdem Yörük provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced employment-based social security. This book is one of the results of Yörük’s European Research Council-funded project, which compares the political dynamics in several emerging markets in order to develop a new political theory of welfare in the global south. As such, this book is an ambitious analytical and empirical contribution to understanding the causes of a sweeping shift in the nature of state welfare provision in Turkey during the recent decades—part of a global trend that extends far beyond Turkey. Most scholarship about Turkey and similar countries has explained this shift toward poor relief as a response to demographic and structural changes including aging populations, the decline in the economic weight of industry, and the informalization of labor, while ignoring the effect of grassroots politics. In order to overcome these theoretical shortages in the literature, the book revisits concepts of political containment and political mobilization from the earlier literature on the mid-twentieth-century welfare state development and incorporates the effects of grassroots politics in order to understand the recent welfare system shift as it materialized in Turkey, where a new matrix of political dynamics has produced new large-scale social assistance programs.

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Total Pages : 1690 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 856 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: