This paper presents a comparative analysis of two reports by the UN Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, one for Spain and one for the UK. In both countries, austerity policies were introduced following the banking crisis of 2008. The UN Rapporteur reports highlight the damage that ...
whereas people who freely choose to be hard-working and industrious eventually wind up wealthy, or at least pretty well off. Leftists lean more toward the idea that poverty is not a choice, but a chance fate that befalls a misfortunate minority of the population....
people, to improve people’s livelihood is to enable people to have better education, have more stable jobs, more satisfied income, enjoy more reliable social security, higher level of medical and health services, and live in a better environment. As socialism with Chinese characteristics has ente...
Poverty is widely believed to cause violence. The general public treats this notion as a truism, and most academics also accept it as such. Debates among the latter tend to be over which social mechanisms cause poverty to affect violence. But there are o
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And he repeatedly argues that we need to improve the quality of education, though I wish he had explicitly stated that this means we have to replace the government’s failed education monopoly with a choice-based system. But no need to nit-pick. The video is great, as are his other vide...
A dream come true One of four children born into a farmer's family in Lhasa, Gyatso had never thought he could ever become a pilot. The opportunity came in 2016, when it was decided to build a civil helicopter base for sightseeing and emergency rescue in Lhasa as part of a program to...
Fig. 2: Exposure to unsafe average annual PM2.5 concentrations as a share of the population. a Percentage of the population exposed to PM2.5 over 5 μg/m. b Percentage of population exposed to PM2.5 over 15 μg/m3. c Percentage of population exposed to PM2.5 over 35 μg/m3. ...
evidence suggest that this target is out of reach7. We select somewhat arbitrarily 2050 as the target year for alleviating poverty and show the sensitivity of this choice in Extended Data Fig.9b. We extrapolate the current economic growth forecasts into the future in each country until the pover...
"People have these fixed ideas and welfare in life as a product of choice, willpower, and drive," says Nat Kewal-Tayler, CEO of Frame Works. "When we see people who are struggling," he says, "those assumptions 'lead us to the perception that people in poverty are lazy, they don't...