Coping With Poverty

Author : Mohammad Hakim Haider,Sumit Kumar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030108595

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Poverty in Afghanistan by Mohammad Hakim Haider,Sumit Kumar Pdf

This book examines the patterns, characteristics, causes and coping mechanisms of the poor in Afghanistan applying econometric and statistical techniques. The authors address and identify the extent of poverty in Afghanistan over the years, the spatial patterns and regional imbalances of poverty in Afghanistan, the distinguishing characteristics of the poor in Afghanistan, and explore shocks faced by the poor in Afghanistan as well as subsequent coping strategies. Based on household level data collected under the ‘National Risk Vulnerability Assessment’ (NRVA) survey of 2003, 2005, 2007/08 and 2011/12 of Afghanistan, the authors identify options that may enable policy makers and other stakeholders to further enable the inclusion of the poor in development processes and to successfully cope with poverty and its adverse outcomes. This short book will be of interest to students, researchers, academicians, policymakers, international agencies and NGOs at international and national levels.

Author : Verônica Morais Ximenes,James Ferreira Moura Jr.,Elívia Camurça Cidade,Bárbara Barbosa Nepomuceno
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030242923

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Psychosocial Implications of Poverty by Verônica Morais Ximenes,James Ferreira Moura Jr.,Elívia Camurça Cidade,Bárbara Barbosa Nepomuceno Pdf

This book presents a multidimensional, psychosocial and critical understanding of poverty by bringing together studies carried out with groups in different contexts and situations of deprivation in Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay, Nicaragua and Spain. The book is divided in two parts. The first part presents studies that unveil the psychosocial implications of poverty by revealing the processes of domination based on the stigmatization and criminalization of poor people, which contribute to maintain realities of social inequality. The second part presents studies focused on strategies to fight poverty and forms of resistance developed by individuals who are in situations of marginalization. The studies presented in this contributed volume depart from the theoretical framework developed by Critical Social Psychology, Community Psychology and Liberation Psychology, in an effort to understand poverty beyond its monetary dimension, bringing social, cultural, structural and subjective factors into the analysis. Psychological science in general has not produced specific knowledge about poverty as a result of the relations of domination produced by social inequalities fostered by the capitalist system. This book seeks to fill this gap by presenting a psychosocial perspective with psychological and sociological bases aligned in a dialectical way in order to understand and confront poverty. Psychosocial Implications of Poverty – Diversities and Resistances will be of interest to social psychologists, sociologists and economists interested in multidimensional studies of poverty, as well as to policy makers and activists directly working with the development of policies and strategies to fight poverty.

Author : Michael Lokshin,Ruslan Yemtsov
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Capital humano - Rusia
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Household Strategies for Coping with Poverty and Social Exclusion in Post-crisis Russia by Michael Lokshin,Ruslan Yemtsov Pdf

For Russian households coping with economic hardship in the wake of the recent financial crisis, the choice of survival strategy has strongly depended on their human capital. The higher a household's level of human capital, the more likely it is to choose an active strategy.

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on the Science of Research on Families
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309210980

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Toward an Integrated Science of Research on Families by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on the Science of Research on Families Pdf

Demographic changes, immigration, economic upheavals, and changing societal mores are creating new and altered structures, processes, and relationships in American families today. As families undergo rapid change, family science is at the brink of a new and exciting integration across methods, disciplines, and epistemological perspectives. The purpose of The Science of Research on Families: A Workshop, held in Washington, DC, on July 13-14, 2010, was to examine the broad array of methodologies used to understand the impact of families on children's health and development. It sought to explore individual disciplinary contributions and the ways in which different methodologies and disciplinary perspectives could be combined in the study of families. Toward an Integrated Science of Research on Families documents the information presented in the workshop presentations and discussions. The report explores the idea of family research as being both basic and applied, offering opportunities for learning as well as intervention. It discusses research as being most useful when organized around particular problems, such as obesity or injury prevention. Toward an Integrated Science of Research on Families offers a problem-oriented approach that can guide a broad-based research program that extends across funders, institutions, and scientific disciplines.

Author : Sheldon Danziger,Ann Chih Lin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472023585

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Coping With Poverty by Sheldon Danziger,Ann Chih Lin Pdf

Conservatives often condemn the poor, particularly African-Americans, for having children out of wedlock, joblessness, dropping out of school, or tolerating crime. Liberals counter that, with more economic opportunity, the poor differ little from the nonpoor in these areas. In answer to both, Coping with Poverty points to the survival strategies of the poor and their multiple roles as parents, neighbors, relatives, and workers. Their attempts to balance multiple obligations occur within a context of limited information, social support, and resources. Their decisions may not always be the wisest, but they "make sense" in context. Contributors use qualitative research methods to explore the influence of community, workplace, and family upon strategies for dealing with poverty. Promising young scholars delve into poor black inner-city neighborhoods and suburbs and middle-income black urban communities, exploring experiences at all stages of life, including high-school students, young parents, employed older men, and unemployed mothers. Two chapters discuss the role of qualitative research in poverty studies, specifically examining how this research can be used to improve policymaking. The volume's contribution is in the diversity of experiences it highlights and in how the general themes it illustrates are similar across different age/gender groups. The book also suggests an approach to policymaking that seeks to incorporate the experiences and the needs of the poor themselves, in the hope of creating more successful and more relevant poverty policy. It is especially useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, public policy, urban studies, and African-American Studies, as its scope makes it THE basic reader of qualitative studies of poverty. Sheldon Danziger is Director of the Poverty Research and Tranining Center and Professor of Social Work and Public Policy, University of Michigan. Ann Chih Lin is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Michigan.

Author : Deborah Ghate,Neal Hazel,Policy Research Bureau (Great Britain)
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 184310069X

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Parenting in Poor Environments by Deborah Ghate,Neal Hazel,Policy Research Bureau (Great Britain) Pdf

A study of the effect of poor environments on parenting. The authors explore what professionals and policy-makers can do to assist families living in poverty.

Author : Michael Lokshin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1290704882

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Household Strategies for Coping with Poverty and Social Exclusion in Post-Crisis Russia by Michael Lokshin Pdf

For Russian households coping with economic hardship in the wake of the recent financial crisis, the choice of survival strategy has strongly depended on their human capital. The higher a household's level of human capital, the more likely it is to choose an active strategy. What strategies have Russian households used to cope with economic hardship in the wake of the recent financial crisis? Which coping strategies have been most effective in reducing poverty for different groups of households? And how have people been able to adapt to the dramatic drop in formal cash incomes?Lokshin and Yemtsov look at these questions using subjective evaluations of coping strategies used by household survey respondents to mitigate the effects of the Russian financial crisis on their welfare. The data come from two rounds (1996 and 1998) of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The results of their analysis show that a household's choice of survival strategy strongly depends on its human capital: The higher its level of human capital, the more likely it is to choose an active strategy (such as finding a supplementary job or increasing home production).Households with low levels of human capital, those headed by pensioners, and those whose members have low levels of education are more likely to suffer social exclusion. To prevent poverty from becoming entrenched, the trend toward marginalization and impoverishment of these groups of households needs to be monitored and targeted policy interventions need to be undertaken to reverse the trend.This paper - a joint product of Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group, and Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Unit, Europe and Central Asia Region - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to understand household-level vulnerability to shocks and the ability of households to cope with crisis.

Author : Linda Tirado
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698175280

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Hand to Mouth by Linda Tirado Pdf

One of the Best 5 Books of 2014 — Esquire "I’ve been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself – if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado’s life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. Tirado is the real thing." —from the foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like—on all levels. Frankly and boldly, Tirado discusses openly how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why “poor people don’t always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should.”

Author : Hymie Rubenstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429712760

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Coping With Poverty by Hymie Rubenstein Pdf

This ethnography of Leeward Village, a large coastal community on the little-known Caribbean island of St. Vincent, illustrates how people in one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere pull together in positive and creative ways to adjust to the many adversities they face. Like their Black counterparts elsewhere in the Americas, Leeward

Author : Patricia Simpson
Publisher : Community Service Society Ny
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0881561088

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Living in Poverty by Patricia Simpson Pdf

Author : Hymie Rubenstein
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015012205970

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Coping With Poverty by Hymie Rubenstein Pdf

Author : Svein Jentoft,Arne Eide
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400715820

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Poverty Mosaics: Realities and Prospects in Small-Scale Fisheries by Svein Jentoft,Arne Eide Pdf

Small-scale fisheries are a major source of food and employment around the world. Yet, many small-scale fishers work in conditions that are neither safe nor secure. Millions of them are poor, and often they are socially and politically marginalized. Macro-economic and institutional mechanisms are essential to address these poverty and vulnerability problems; however, interventions at the local community level are also necessary. This requires deep understanding of what poverty means to the fishers, their families and communities; how they cope with it; and the challenges they face to increase resiliency and improve their lives for the better. This book provides a global perspective, situating small-scale fisheries within the broad academic discourse on poverty, fisheries management and development. In-depth case studies from fifteen countries in Latin America, Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, demonstrate the enormously complex ecological, economic, social, cultural and political contexts of this sector. Conclusions for policy-making, formulated as a joint statement by the authors, argue that fisheries development, poverty alleviation, and resource management must be integrated within a comprehensive governance approach that also looks beyond fisheries. The scientific editors, Svein Jentoft and Arne Eide, are both with the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø, Norway.

Author : Cecília Loreto Mariz
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 156639113X

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Coping with Poverty by Cecília Loreto Mariz Pdf

Only by understanding the enduring poverty of Brazil can one hope to understand the recent growth of Protestant evangelical churches there, Ceciacute;lia Loreto Mariz contends. Her study investigates how religious groups support individualism and encourage the poor to organize. Groups with shared values are then able to develop strategies to cope with poverty and, ultimately, to transform the social structure. Interviews with members and leaders of religious groups, accounts of meetings, and close readings of religious literature contribute to a realistic account of Christian base communities and Assembly of God churches, folk Catholic tradition, and Afro Brazilian Spiritism. Author note: Ceciacute;lia Loreto Mariz, a Brazilian national, teaches Sociology at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil.

Author : Mark Tomlinson,Robert Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cost and standard of living
ISBN : UOM:39015084127698

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Coping with Complexity by Mark Tomlinson,Robert Walker Pdf

Author : Bent Greve
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429603464

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Routledge International Handbook of Poverty by Bent Greve Pdf

The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and in 2014 it was halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is, to a high degree, the consequence of the rapid economic development in a few countries, especially China, but in many countries around the globe poverty is still at a high level and is influencing societies’ overall development. It is against this background that this Handbook provides an up-to-date analysis and overview of the topic from a large variety of theoretical and methodological angles. Organised into four parts, the Handbook provides knowledge on what poverty is, how it has developed, and what type of policies might be able to succeed in reducing poverty. Part I investigates conceptual issues and relates concepts to people’s relative position in society and the understanding of justice. Part II shows how poverty has developed. It combines existing empirical knowledge with regional/national understandings of the issue of poverty. Part III analyses policies and interventions with the aim of reducing or alleviating poverty within a national as well as global context. It includes a variety of countries and examples. Finally, Part IV tells us what can be done about poverty; what instruments are available to end poverty as we know it today. This volume will be an invaluable reference book for students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly in sociology, social policy, public policy, development studies, international relations and politics.