Poverty has decreased indeveloped countriessince theIndustrial Revolution. Increased production reduced the cost of goods, making them more affordable, while advancements in agriculture increasedcrop yields, as well as food production. Theinternational poverty lineis a monetary threshold under which an indi...
Oklahoma’s ranges rank pretty poorly. In fact, the range for four-person families ranks 40th out of 50. Households also have a low median income at $59,269, which has actually decreased recently. It’s no wonder their poverty rate is so high – 15.2%. Oregon Two-Person Family Middle-...
There has been a declining number of HIV/AIDS and malaria infections among children since 2000 in Zambia, consistent with a decreased proportion of child deaths due to these causes [64]. This is likely related to the relatively high investment for addressing HIV/AIDS and malaria, and integration...
Why do you think it is that the government has decreased the minimum wage since 1968? What are some of the normative reasons that a society may want to limit economic inequality and/or reduce poverty rates? As part of your answer, discuss: a. Trends in the advance...
One EA-specific version of the argument (which somewhat begs the question by assuming that the EAs working on global poverty should be switching to focus on animal charities) might go something like this: 1. Animal charities are much better buys (in money or time) than AMF or GiveDirectly....
TheAmerican Families Planincludes a historic investment to help families cover basic expenses, lower health insurance premiums, and continue the reductions in child poverty as well. It also includes $10.7 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Health and Human Services to support resear...
It has been suggested that there seems to be too much focus on simply documenting IK rather than incorporating it into policy (de Scally and Doberstein 2022) and the bridging of IK and scientific knowledge is still limited in the science-policy process (Filho et al. 2023). Scientific ...
The first is that the state is now much more active in economic development than at any point in recent decades. Somehow an economy must evolve from agrarian poverty to diversified industries that can compete with rivals in countries which have been rich for centuries. To do so requires infrast...
Yet, despite such far-ranging implications, much debate has taken place on the basis of haphazard or inadequate empirical data. Accounting for IMF program heterogeneity, as endeavored here, is a step to rectifying this gap in our knowledge. Our exposition of methodological issues, combined with ...
Much has been written about the pandemic’s impact on urban planning. The pandemic accelerated existing trends such as increasing rates of urbanization, digital transformation, climate change, and the inadequacy of our global health systems.Footnote10As my friend Emilia Saiz, Secretary General of Uni...