There’s no question that value-added taxes reduce the ability of poor people to consume. And I would not be surprised if a chart based on honest data looked very similar to the one shown above. The moral of the story is that all good people – on the right and on the left – ...
this week, China announced it was considering the issuance of $1.4 trillion in extra debt over the next few years. This would be in attempt to revive China’
Beyond Poverty 33 Finally, in reverse order, there was the question of what level and types of capa- bility and functioning are sufficient to exit or overcome poverty: how, in other words, to draw the poverty line. I want to take this in two stages. First, I want to show how Sen's...
The nonsense and yet widespread idea that some countries merely have to ‘catch up’ with others is belied by the inequality point but poses the much harder question for western countries and populaces to deal with:do I support international development enough to sacrifice any aspect of my own ...
It is not enough that we are able to say, “I live a moral and respectable life. I pay every one his due. I discharge all the affairs of life with integrity. I attend church, I read the Bible, I pray to God.” There remains behind another question, to which the Bible requires an...
Walter Williams periodically has explained that the main beneficiaries of the so-called War on Poverty are all the bureaucrats who have very lucrative jobs in all the various redistribution programs, agencies, and departments. He calls these people "pove
Rather than asking yourself if you believe this plan will work, the question you should ask, is how sure are you this plan will NOT work? Especially, since you know almost nothing about it yet. We are talking about a plan that could end the suffering of billions of people. To simply ...
These types of class-based perceptions and experiences, rooted in childhood, have implications for children’s sense of self and future orientations, their beliefs and attitudes about those living in poverty, and about individual and collective responsibility to help those in need. The ...
Additionally, when asked the question about care:” Is there anyone in this household who receives any of these kinds of help or looking after?” respondersFootnote 15 are presented with a show card containing a fixed list of activities (see Table S2, supplementary Information), which could be...
This question was asked in class, and I was shown three pie charts. One where the rich have most of the wealth in the country, one where it was pretty evenly distributed and had no huge gaps between social classes, and one that was exactly perfectly distributed between the social classes....