Understanding Poverty And Well Being

Author : David Hulme,J. F. J. Toye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415366755

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Understanding Poverty and Well-being by David Hulme,J. F. J. Toye Pdf

Written by a multi-disciplinary team of contributors, this collection explores the different dimensions of well being, poverty and inequality. A person’s sense of well being is compounded of many elements including economic, political and social psychology. Poverty and inequality are aspects of a lack of well being in multiple dimensions and, this texts argues, development should be considered a process that overcomes these multiple deficiencies This book examines the advantages of analysing poverty and development by multi-discipline research. Economists, political sociologists and anthropologists put forward an idea of well being from their own perspective, using their own research material, while the editors argue in their introduction that bringing to bear of many disciplines can enrich the research output of all.

Author : David Hulme,John Toye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317998587

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Understanding Poverty and Well-Being by David Hulme,John Toye Pdf

Written by a multi-disciplinary team of contributors, this collection explores the different dimensions of well being, poverty and inequality. A person’s sense of well being is compounded of many elements including economic, political and social psychology. Poverty and inequality are aspects of a lack of well being in multiple dimensions and, this texts argues, development should be considered a process that overcomes these multiple deficiencies This book examines the advantages of analysing poverty and development by multi-discipline research. Economists, political sociologists and anthropologists put forward an idea of well being from their own perspective, using their own research material, while the editors argue in their introduction that bringing to bear of many disciplines can enrich the research output of all.

Author : Dennis Raphael
Publisher : Canadian Scholars Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 155130323X

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Poverty and Policy in Canada by Dennis Raphael Pdf

Poverty and Policy in Canada provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of Canadians. This original volume considers a range of issues that will be of great interest to a variety of audiences - Social Work, Health Sciences, Sociology, Political Science, Policy Studies, Nursing, Education, Psychology, and the general public. Central issues include the definitions of poverty and means of measuring it in wealthy, industrialized nations such as Canada; the causes of poverty - both situational and societal; the health and social implications of poverty for individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and means of addressing the incidence of poverty and improving its effects. Particular emphasis has been placed on the lived experiences of poverty throughout the book. This new book has three, straightforward goals: to provide a range of approaches for understanding poverty and its effects to help readers understand the structural antecedents of poverty - that is, how society and its distribution of resources are the primary determinants of poverty to provide realistic solutions to poverty

Author : Sheldon DANZIGER,Sheldon Danziger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674030176

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Understanding Poverty by Sheldon DANZIGER,Sheldon Danziger Pdf

In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. Understanding Poverty brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

Author : David Hulme,John Toye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:254529127

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Special Issue: Understanding Poverty Well-being by David Hulme,John Toye Pdf

Author : Fiona Nunan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134597895

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Understanding Poverty and the Environment by Fiona Nunan Pdf

Does poverty lead to environmental degradation? Do degraded environments and natural resources lead to poverty? Or, are there other forces at play? Is the relationship between poverty and the environment really as straightforward as the vicious circle portrayal of ‘poverty leading to environmental destruction leading to more poverty’ would suggest? Does it matter if the relationship is portrayed in this way? This book suggests that it does matter. Arguing that such a portrayal is unhelpful and misleading, the book brings together a diverse range of analytical frameworks and approaches that can enable a much deeper investigation of the context and nature of poverty-environment relationships. Analytical frameworks and approaches examined in the book include political ecology, a gendered lens, Critical Institutionalism, the Environmental Entitlements framework, the Institutional Analysis and Development approach, the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework, wellbeing analysis, social network analysis and frameworks for the analysis of the governance of natural resources. Recommended further reading draws on published material from the last thirty years as well as key contemporary publications, giving readers a steer towards essential texts and authors within each subject area. Key themes running through the analytical frameworks and approaches are identified and examined, including power, access, institutions and scale.

Author : Michael H. Morris,Susana C. Santos,Xaver Neumeyer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788111546

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Poverty and Entrepreneurship in Developed Economies by Michael H. Morris,Susana C. Santos,Xaver Neumeyer Pdf

While extensively explored as a solution to poverty at the base of the pyramid, this is the first in-depth examination of entrepreneurship and the poor within advanced economies. The authors explore the underlying nature of poverty and draw implications for new venture creation. Entrepreneurship is presented as a source of empowerment that represents an alternative pathway out of poverty.

Author : Jed Boardman,Helen Killaspy,Gillian Mezey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781911623595

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Social Inclusion and Mental Health by Jed Boardman,Helen Killaspy,Gillian Mezey Pdf

A comprehensive account of the multiple ways that people with mental health conditions are marginalised and disadvantaged in our society.

Author : Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee,Roland Benabou,Dilip Mookherjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198041535

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Understanding Poverty by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee,Roland Benabou,Dilip Mookherjee Pdf

Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays cover a wide array of topics: the first essay is about how poverty gets measured. The next section is about the causes of poverty and its persistence, and the ideas range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the problems of "excessive" population growth, corruption and ethnic conflict. The next section is about policy: how should we fight poverty? The essays discuss how to get drug companies to produce more vaccines for the diseases of the poor, what we should and should not expect from micro-credit, what we should do about child labor, how to design welfare policies that work better and a host of other topics. The final section is about where the puzzles lie: what are the most important anomalies, the big gaps in the way economists think about poverty? The essays talk about the puzzling reluctance of Kenyan farmers to fertilizers, the enduring power of social relationships in economic transactions in developing countries and the need to understand where aspirations come from, and much else. Every essay is written with the aim of presenting the latest and the most sophisticated in economics without any recourse to jargon or technical language.

Author : Alberto Minujin Z.,Minujin, Alberto,Nandy, Shailen
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847424815

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Global Child Poverty and Well-Being by Alberto Minujin Z.,Minujin, Alberto,Nandy, Shailen Pdf

Of the countless people around the world enduring deprivation and tremendous suffering from poverty and malnutrition, hundreds of millions are children. But research on poverty and development has only relatively recently begun to focus on this aspect of global poverty. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, this book examines how child poverty and well-being are conceptualized, defined, and measured and presents regional and national studies of child poverty from around the world. Global Child Poverty and Well-Being is an urgent call to arms for researchers and policymakers to confront one of the world's great ongoing tragedies.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309483988

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A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10 Years Pdf

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.

Author : M. McGillivray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230625600

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Human Well-Being by M. McGillivray Pdf

This book provides insights into how human well-being could be better defined and empirically assessed. It takes stock of and reviews various concepts and measures and provides recommendations for future practice and research.

Author : Mark McGillivray,Matthew Clarke
Publisher : UNU
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123142130

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Understanding Human Well-being by Mark McGillivray,Matthew Clarke Pdf

This publication examines advances in underlying well-being, poverty, and inequality concepts and corresponding empirical applications and case studies, including traditional monetary concepts and measurements and non-monetary factors including educational achievement, longevity, health, and subjective well-being.

Author : Dennis Raphael
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773381923

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Poverty in Canada by Dennis Raphael Pdf

Now in its third edition, this comprehensive text provides an in-depth examination of poverty and its impact on the health and quality of life of Canadians. Considering a broad range of topics, Dennis Raphael covers the central issues of defining and measuring poverty; situational and societal causes of poverty; health and social implications for individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and the means of reducing poverty’s incidence through public policy action. Poverty in Canada will foster greater insight into the repercussions of poverty throughout society, encouraging readers to reflect on provocative questions at the end of each chapter. Well updated to reflect current statistics and recent public policy changes, this new edition explores why specific groups of Canadians are over-represented amongst those living in poverty and provides a more developed analysis of the barriers to reducing poverty, including economic globalization and the increased power and influence of the corporate sector under neo liberalism. Emphasizing the lived experiences of poverty, this interdisciplinary volume is a valuable resource to those studying or working in health studies, social work, sociology, and equity studies.

Author : Jean-Yves Duclos,Abdelkrim Araar
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387258930

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Poverty and Equity by Jean-Yves Duclos,Abdelkrim Araar Pdf

This text addresses the understanding and alleviation of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a unique and broad mix of concepts, measurement methods, statistical tools, software, and practical exercises. Part I discusses basic fundamental issues of well-being and poverty measurement. Part II develops an integrated framework for measuring poverty, social welfare, inequality, vertical equity, horizontal equity, and redistribution. Part III presents and develops recent methods for testing the robustness of distributive rankings. Part IV discusses ways of using policy to alleviate poverty, improve welfare, increase equity, and assess the impact of growth. Part V applies the tools to real data. Most of the book’s measurement and statistical tools have been programmed in DAD, a well established and widely available free software program that has been tailored especially for income distribution analysis and is used by scholars, researchers, and analysts in nearly 100 countries worldwide. It requires basic understanding of calculus and statistics. Abdelkrim Araar and Jean-Yves Duclos teach economics at Université Laval in Québec City.