Progress and Poverty in Early Modern Europe. The Economic History Review New Series, 56(3): 403-443Allen, R.C. 2003. Progress and Poverty in Early Modern Europe. Economic History Review 56: 403-443.Allen, Robert C. (2003). Progress and poverty in Early Modern Europe. Economic History ...
Poverty, Progress, and Population: 'The great commerce of every civilized society': urban growth in early modern Europe List of illustrations List of tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. Images of poverty 3. The causes of poverty 4. The extent of poverty 5. Standards of living among the poor ...
Progress and poverty in early modern Europe An econometric model of economic development is estimated with data from leading European countries between 1300 and 1800. The model explores the impact of... RC Allen - 《Economic History Review》 被引量: 307发表: 2003年 Progress and Poverty: Effect...
More than 150 countries across the four geographic regions (Arab States and Europe; Asia and the Pacific; Latin America and Caribbean; and Sub-Saharan Africa) receive support from UNFPS to mitigate the problems of hunger and poverty. It is a founding member of the United Nations Development Gr...
Our first entry was about demographics, which is a challenge in China (as well as in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere). Today, let’s look at what China can teach us about inequality, and we’ll start with this chart from the folks at Oxford who run Our World in Data. As you ca...
D. Goitein'sMediterranean Societyand inspired also by research on poverty and charity in medieval and early modern Europe, it provides a clear window onto the daily lives of the poor. It also illuminates private charity, a subject that has long been elusive to the medieval historian. In ...
His engaging account of the potato's journey, from the Andes to Europe and beyond, starts and ends in local communities where the tuber is still central to daily life. Andean cultures cultivate potatoes in poor-quality soils at high altitudes, mainly because they have been excluded from richer...
The Belt and Road Initiative, which is aimed at improving infrastructure connectivity and boost trade, is likely to further accelerate China's economic and trade position by substantially improving and integrating world trade among the countries of Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America. By constructi...
In the United States, the federal poverty threshold is defined in absolute terms based on a number generated in 1960 that has been carried forward accounting for increases in the cost of living. However, in Europe, a measure of relative poverty is used. Relative poverty is the extent to whic...
The third step involved realizing basic modernization and developing China into a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, and culturally advanced by the time we celebrate the centenary of the PRC in the middle of the 21st century. ], put forward the goal of achieving ...