Do The Poor Count

Author : Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271076126

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Do the Poor Count? by Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson Pdf

Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by ensuring efficient economic use of resources, both human and capital, but the widening gap between rich and poor threatened to undermine political stability. At the heart of the dilemma faced by these new democracies is the question of accountability: Are all citizens equally capable of holding the government accountable if it does not represent their interests? In this book, Michelle Taylor-Robinson investigates both the formal institutions of democracy (such as electoral rules and the design of the legislative and executive branches) and informal institutions (such as the nomination procedures of political parties and patron-client relationships) to see what incentives legislators have to pay attention to the needs of poor people and thereby adequately represent their interests.

Author : Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271050560

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Do the Poor Count? by Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson Pdf

Latin America’s flirtation with neoliberal economic restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s (the so-called Washington Consensus strategy) had the effect of increasing income inequality throughout the region. The aim of this economic policy was in part to create the conditions for stable democracy by ensuring efficient economic use of resources, both human and capital, but the widening gap between rich and poor threatened to undermine political stability. At the heart of the dilemma faced by these new democracies is the question of accountability: Are all citizens equally capable of holding the government accountable if it does not represent their interests? In this book, Michelle Taylor-Robinson investigates both the formal institutions of democracy (such as electoral rules and the design of the legislative and executive branches) and informal institutions (such as the nomination procedures of political parties and patron-client relationships) to see what incentives legislators have to pay attention to the needs of poor people and thereby adequately represent their interests.

Author : Linda Tirado
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Kenan Heise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poor
ISBN : 1936863332

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The Book of the Poor by Kenan Heise Pdf

"Collecting dozens of interviews conducted over 50 years to give voice to the 16 percent that live below the poverty line, journalist Kenan Heise ... addresses unemployment, prison, nutrition needs and hunger, the lives of impoverished children, panhandling, health-care struggles, the role of race in poverty, and Dumpster diving"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015744423

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The British Drama by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kathryn Edin,H. Luke Shaefer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780544303188

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$2.00 a Day by Kathryn Edin,H. Luke Shaefer Pdf

The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists--from a leading national poverty expert who "defies convention" (New York Times)

Author : Michael Sherraden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351530224

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Can the Poor Save? by Michael Sherraden Pdf

Many policymakers argue that the best poverty policy not only provides cash to the poor for subsistence but also incentives and structures that encourage long-term social and economic improvement. As part of this, they make the case for Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), a new policy proposal designed to help the poor save and to build assets. This book explores IDAs to determine their effectiveness. IDAs are matched savings accounts targeted on low-income, low-wealth individuals. Savings in IDAs are used for home ownership, post-secondary education, small business development, and other purposes. Do IDAs work? If they do, for whom? And does how an IDA is designed determine savings outcomes? This volume is the first analysis of matched savings by the poor to use data from monthly bank statements. It comes at a critical time, as debate rages over the merits of individual social security accounts. IDAs also respond to policy that is becoming more asset based and less inclusive of the poor. The authors argue for the efficacy of IDAs to counter this tendency. They find that while savings outcomes vary among participants, no characteristics (such as low income or public assistance) preclude saving. They examine effects of IDA design (the match rate, savings targets, and the use of automatic transfer) on savings results and analyze factors that influence varying rates of saving and spending over time. They conclude that financial education and other support services, though costly, improve savings performance. To address the issue of cost they suggest a two-tier system of IDA design, one with broad access and simple services and the other with targeted access and intensive services. Can the Poor Save? offers a wealth of lessons to those interested in saving and asset accumulation among the poor. It not only breaks new ground in the scientific study of savings behavior, but also offers concrete, evidence-based recommendations to improve policies designed to encourage the poor to save and how to make such policies more inclusive.

Author : Dorte Verner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Income distribution
ISBN : UCSD:31822030955942

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Making the Poor Count Takes More Than Counting the Poor by Dorte Verner Pdf

Author : John Thomas Dicks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555077213

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Dicks' standard plays by John Thomas Dicks Pdf

Author : Mary Mapes Dodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : PSU:000056587920

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St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge Pdf

Author : Saint-Nicholas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555033600

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St. Nicholas, Conducted by M.M. Dodge by Saint-Nicholas Pdf

Author : Abhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610391603

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Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo Pdf

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. Called "marvelous, rewarding" by the Wall Street Journal, the book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.

Author : Samuel Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3546571

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Works of Samuel Richardson: The history of Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson Pdf

Author : Samuel Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z312905108

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“The” Works of Samuel Richardson by Samuel Richardson Pdf

Author : Ludwig Tieck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015008186598

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The Elves by Ludwig Tieck Pdf