"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man," wrote Robert Heinlein, a science-fiction writer. Until the 18th century, global GDP per person was stuck between 725 and 1,100, around the same income level as the World Bank's current poverty line of 1.90 a day. But global...
根据第三段“The survey followed other recent worrying assessments of increasing levels of poverty throughout Europe, with Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics agency reporting 17 percent of the population of the 27-nation group was “at risk of poverty” and that only 15percent of ...
(2012), point out the problem of persistent poverty in rural China. For example, they use rural household panel data from three Chinese provinces and look for the determinants of long-term poverty. They also test the duration dependence on the probability to leave poverty. Interestingly, they ...
This allows us to calculate population headcounts for each risk category and for each (sub)national administrative unit, yielding an estimate of the number and share of people exposed to no, low, moderate, high, very high, and hazardous air pollution concentrations throughout the year. Finally,...
the elderly were less and less likely to be in poverty over time relative to children and the working aged. While this has happened in the United States over the past few decades, the widening and clockwise movement has been true throughout the entire distribution for the OECD only in the ...
Transport prices have also fluctuated throughout this period reaching its peak of 8,9% in May 2014 and then significantly declined in January 2015 when the country experienced deflation at a rate of -0,8%. Housing and utilities have remained fairly stable since the 2009 recession. Those living...
Bill Gates is right about poverty, the world really is getting richer It’s amazing just how the wealthy can argue about poverty wow $1.60 a day to $7 in 8 years is this really the destruction of poverty? Who is taking part in this conversation? They ought to see what Australia has ...
During the 1980s and early 1990s, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) proliferated throughout Latin America and their role as planners and implementers o... S Arellano-Lopez,Petras, J.F. - 《Development & Change》 被引量: 122发表: 1994年 ...
China is one of the first group of countries to achieve the target set in the MDG report of halving its numbers of poor people, as measured both by the Chinese government’s own and the international poverty reduction criteria. Between 1990 and 2005, the number of people through...