Sometimes we set up a false dichotomy that we must choose between helping people in poverty in our proverbial backyard and those in need abroad. At Compassion, employees are passionate about helping children struggling through extreme poverty in other countries, but they’re also passionate about an...
People in general may have a better life but there's still a lot of inequality in different countries.Inequality- in other words some people have a lot of money and opportunities and others just don't. Harry So, individual governments have to find a way of reducing this inequality, to all...
In this article, we draw on a recent review of the Canadian literature on poverty in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirit, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ2S+) communities to conceptualize social work interventions that may be used to address material inequities amon...
Post-1970 trends in within-country inequality and poverty: Rich and middle-income countries Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its predecessor), the aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive ... S Morelli,T Smeeding,J Thompson - ...
Among the OECD countries, Costa Rica had the highest share of children living in poverty, reaching 28.5 percent in 2022. Türkiye followed with a share of 22 percent of children living in poverty, while 20.5 percent of children in Spain, Chile, and the United States did the same. On the ...
Fact-check: Biden's claim that 'almost half' of Americans live in poverty It is my considered opinion that poverty is gaining ground in Nigeria because, while other countries concentrate on wealth creation, Nigeria seems obsessed with the idea of poverty reduction. Giving Teeth To Buhari's Pov...
Thailand has been relatively progressive and dynamic compared to other Southeast Asian countries. According to a report jointly published in2018by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MSDHS), Thailand is the first country in the region...
Utilization of health services for children in the AFDC sample was similar to that of nonpoverty children and superior to that of other poverty children. Irrespective of Medicaid coverage, poverty children's health care differed from that of nonpoverty children in the following ways: less well ...
It draws on nationally representative data to compare trends in countries' poverty rates and other social indicators with those for indigenous sub-populations and provides comparable data for a wide range of countries all over the world. It estimates global poverty numbers and analyzes other important...
"It is patently unjust and contrary to British values that so many people are living in poverty," Alston said. Other criticisms Alston had were aimed at tax policy, funding for the National Health Service (NHS), education and municipal services where central government support budgets have been...