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Author | : Yogesh Atal |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1999-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781571811929 |
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Poverty is an issue facing countries around the globe, yet it is a multi-dimensional phenomenon caused by a variety of factors, differing from context with no linear chain of cause and effect. The occurrence and persistence of poverty is influenced by an interrelated web of economic, social, psychological, cultural, and political factors. Focusing on countries-in-transition belonging to the former Soviet bloc where the existence of poverty was officially denied until the collapse of the Soviet Union, this volume examines the ways in which each country is dealing with its newly acknowledged and rapidly increasing poverty. The transition from socialism to democracy and market economies has proved more difficult and costly than anyone imagined. Scholars from the six countries examined here profile and evaluate current social policies and programs on poverty eradication and provide a comparative perspective that ensures that culturally specific solutions can be found in place of borrowed solutions from abroad - solutions which have thus far ignored the cultural factor and have thus failed to deliver.
Author | : Sandra Hutton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134693427 |
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This study addresses the experience of, and responses to poverty in a range of transition economies including Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia, Uzbekistan, Romania, Albania and Macedonia. It covers topics such as the definition of poverty lines and the measurement of poverty; the role of income-in-kind in supporting families; homelessness and destitution; housing; the design, targeting and administration of welfare; and personal responses to economic transition.
Author | : Philip N. Jefferson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 864 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0195393783 |
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This Handbook examines poverty measurement, anti-poverty policy and programs, and poverty theory from the perspective of economics. It is written in a highly accessible style that encourages critical thinking about poverty. What's known about the sources of poverty and its alleviation are summarized and conventional thinking about poverty is challenged.
Author | : Peter Lanjouw |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Ajuste estructural |
ISBN | : |
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November 1998 Has the economic transition in Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union been harder on pensioner households or on households containing children? Do per capita measures of welfare give a misleading picture? Much attention has been paid to the relative vulnerability of two well-defined household groups during the transition. Some observers argue that old-age pensioner households have been relatively protected because of a less steep decline in real pensions compared with wages in most transition economies. By contrast, households with young children are believed to have experienced a substantial decline in living standards under reform and show strikingly higher rates of measured poverty than pensioner households. But others argue that the elderly have suffered more than the young during the transition. Can these conflicting viewpoints about the relative poverty of old and young households be arbitrated? Lanjouw, Milanovic, and Paternostro show that strong (though implicit) assumptions underpin certain poverty comparisons. Notably, using a per capita measure of individual welfare assumes that there are no economies of scale in household consumption, in the sense that the per capita cost of reaching a specific level of welfare does not fall as household size increases. Relaxing that assumption could affect comparisons, showing higher poverty rates among the elderly because their households tend to be smaller than the households containing children. Even the nature of the transition has implications for economies of scale. The relative cost of housing and other goods and services with at least some public-good characteristics has risen rapidly. These relative price shifts hit small households particularly hard, because a greater share of their expenditures goes to public and quasi-public goods. But transition economies have also experienced big increases in the relative prices of goods and services consumed largely by children, such as kindergarten and other education services. These increases affect younger households more. Since there is no accepted way to establish the true extent of economies of scale in a given country, the question can't be answered exactly. But clearly a small departure from a per capita measure may be enough in some cases to overturn the conventional relative ranking of poverty headcounts: poverty among the elderly may then turn out to be worse than among children. This paper-a product of Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to study changes in welfare and inequality during the transition. The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].
Author | : Yogesh Atal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Europe, Easten |
ISBN | : 9789231035753 |
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Author | : Patricia Ruggles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Income |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dr Sven R Larson |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2014-10-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1472439325 |
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Conventional wisdom says that Europe’s crisis is a financial crisis. But is this really the case? In Industrial Poverty, economist Sven R. Larson, challenges this view and suggests instead that Europe is in a state of permanent economic decline. Using Sweden in the 1990s as an example, he shows how a welfare-state crisis combined with the wrong kind of austerity policies replaces prosperity with industrial poverty. Today, Europe is going through the same transition into industrial poverty. Tomorrow, it could be the United States, unless Congress and the President take decisive action against the runaway budget deficit.
Author | : World Bank |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780821347201 |
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Annotation This book brings together the latest findings on the nature and evolution of poverty and inequality in the region.
Author | : Alyosha Goldstein |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2012-03-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0822351811 |
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This work looks at inter-related post WWII case studies to analyze the ways in which different groups, mostly governmental agencies and emerging activist organizations, invoked the idea of "community" in anti-poverty initiatives during the late 1950s and 1960s.
Author | : Unesco |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Europe, Eastern |
ISBN | : 9780119855494 |
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