副标题: A Very Short Introduction出版年: 2018-5-1页数: 144定价: USD 11.95装帧: PaperbackISBN: 9780198716471豆瓣评分 评价人数不足 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到 推荐 我来说两句 短评 ··· 热门 / 最新 / 好友 还没人写过短评呢 我要写书评 Poverty的书评 ··· ( 全部0 条 ) ...
1. a policy in local governments of providing relief for the poor, often excessive in amount.2. any similar policy of government spending that leads to higher taxes. — Poplarist, n. ptochocracy a form of rule by beggars or the poor. ptochology the scientific study of pauperism, unemploy...
INTRODUCTION There are many reasons given by social scientists for the cause of rural agricultural poverty in the Third World, but they can all be essentially classified into a few simple approaches: (1) social-cultural backwardness of the people in the “traditional” sector of the economy; (...
contributions that remain to be paid to the future pension benefits they expect to receive. It is then clear that an individual close to retirement receives a very high return from the PAYG system. If the median voter (who is the median age individual) is close enough to retirement, he ...
America had a very mild increase in inequality between 1870 and 1910… However, its also in America that the living standard of the bottom 90% surged the most. By 1910, their living standard had increased by a factor of 2.37. Only Canada got close to that increase and it was still immen...
A very short introduction. Oxford University Press. (*) Xavier Sala I Marti 2002: "The World Distribution of Income: Falling Poverty and… Convergence, Period", Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 121, No. 2: 351-397, May 2006 (*) B. Milanovic 2005 Worlds Apart. Measuring International ...
The former has just started chemotherapy because of a recent diagnosis. She is a seasoned teacher, a leader, well known and loved. I have had two of her children as students in my classroom. The latter is a very good friend of hers and likely felt compelled to push for a focus on sel...
1. Introduction In the years of economic upturn preceding the global COVID-19 pandemic, the share of households living in poverty in the Netherlands decreased slowly yet steadily (Central Bureau for Statistics, 2018a). Simultaneously, however, persistent poverty, i.e. households living in poverty...
In the case of China, this seems to be a particularly salient concern. The nature of poverty—whether it is more chronic or more transitory—has important implications for development policies: If poverty is more of a temporary phenomenon, then policies aimed at stabilizing short-term income ...
Ellen Ross's Slum Travelers: Ladies and London Poverty, 1860–1920 combines a meticulously thought-out introduction with primary documents depicting a wide-ranging array of social conditions amongst the urban poor, introductions to individual contributors, a map, glossary, and subject guide. Taken ...