Progress for the poor /

One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off. This book aims to enhance our understanding of how to do that drawing on the experiences of twenty affluent countries since the 1970s.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kenworthy, Lane
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Poor > Government policy.
Cost and standard of living > Government policy.
Economic development > Social aspects.
Social policy.
Pauvres > Politique gouvernementale.
Coût et niveau de la vie > Politique gouvernementale.
Politique sociale.
public policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Lutte contre la pauvreté.
Croissance économique.
Aspects sociaux.
Qualité de la vie.
Economic development > Social aspects
Poor > Government policy
Social policy
POVERTY MITIGATION.
SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED PERSONS.
GOVERNMENT POLICY.
COST OF LIVING.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
SOCIAL ASPECTS.
SOCIAL POLICY.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • 1. Raise the Floor
  • 2. Growth Is Good for the Poor, If Social Policy Passes It On
  • 3. How Trickle Down Can Fail: The U.S. Case Lane Kenworthy and Keith Bentele
  • 4. Generous Social Policy Reduces Material Deprivation Lane Kenworthy, Jessica Epstein, and Daniel Duerr
  • 5. Low Wages Need Not Mean Low Incomes
  • 6. Targeting May Not Be So Bad
  • 7. Public Services Are an Important Antipoverty Tool
  • 8. The Tax Mix Matters Less Than We Thought
  • 9. The Aim Is Not Spending Per Se
  • 10. Tradeoffs?
  • 11. The Politics of Helping the Poor
  • AcknowledgmentsAppendix: Data Definitions and Sources
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • W

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