But investment in learning often takes a long time to get rewards, while the poor are often impatient due to economic reasons, and their life in the meantime is getting more worrisome and boring. That goes for health. Banerjee and his wife find that the poor spend the same amount of ...
We find that in Spain inequality is higher, and the poor (especially the ultrapoor) are poorer than those in the Czech Republic, which offsets the poverty reduction effect of Spain's higher mean income and renders its poverty level higher....
Why poverty is a pathogen...doi:10.5015/utmj.v78i3.1056Darrell TanUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Toronto Medical Journal
Why is poverty so difficult to overcome? Why are poorer people less likely to spend money on their own learning and ability development, but more likely to be addicted to television and video games?In the past, a poor person was normally considered to have bad virtue or have no ambition. ...
Poverty is often thought of as an inevitable social condition, and the blame for any shortcomings in governmental welfare policies is frequently placed upon the failings of individuals, markets, and demography. By exploring the influence of neoliberal politics on archaeologies of slum-life this articl...
In Xi's eyes, each civilization "embodies the wisdom and vision of a country or nation, and each is valuable for being uniquely its own." As China is advancing on its own path to modernization with high-quality development, its ample cultural heritage plays an indispensable role. ...
decades — a feat unparalleled in history. The fact that the common people are living much better lives, as I have seen during my travels across the country, shows China is committed to using its resources to enrich its human capital, an obligation many Western governments have nearly ...
A. Because poverty still exists in an affluent society. B. Because moral values are sacrificed in pursuit of material satisfaction. C. Because overconsumption won’t last long due to unrestricted population growth. D. Because traditional rituals are often neglected in the process of modernization....
Poverty is not due to lack of resources, nor generally either to incapacity or lack of motivation. It is essentially always due to bad politics, specifically, a manifold of devices and initiatives that impede the freedom necessary for people to get their jobs done. The freedom we need is bot...
B.The truth is that people have recognized how powerful art can be.C.It presents information in a way that could be absorbed by many easily.D.Rather,it makes you think about current ideas and inspire you to make your own.E.Everyone can relate to art because everyone ...