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The poverty line
\"Poverty, in its universality, seems intuitively understandable and yet, as a global issue, its solutions remain difficult to grasp. What does it mean to live on the poverty line? What does this fateful line below which the economic world describes people as 'poor' represent? The artist duo Chow and Lin explored these questions by creating this award-winning visual comparison that encapsulates an idea of poverty and its worldwide dimensions with regard to food. The eye-opening photographs show what people in 36 countries and territories can afford to buy at local markets from the sum of money that defines the official poverty line--as assessed per person, per day. The texts by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Andrea Brandolini and John Micklewright, and Lucas Chancel shed scientific light on the problem from an economic and political point of view, and issue a call to action.\"--back cover.
Faith, Race and Inequality amongst Young Adults in South Africa
For many young South African adults (often called ‘born frees’), who were born just before or just after the demise of political apartheid, the ongoing realities of poverty and inequality bring to light the question of whether they truly are ‘free’ in contemporary South Africa? Their lived experiences of poverty and inequality seem to be in conflict with theologically laden concepts that remain prominent in social and political life, such as reconciliation, forgiveness, justice and restitution. This leads to a bi‑directional process of contesting, and being contested, by such notions and discourses. Furthermore, in light of the double legacy of both the church and youth as resisting injustice, this publication seeks to explore the many perspectives from which the Christian faith, race and inequality amongst youth can be brought to light.
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Hope over fate : Fazle Hasan Abed and the science of ending global poverty
\"This book tells the story of Fazle Hasan Abed (1936-2019), a former finance executive with almost no experience in relief aid who founded BRAC in 1972. Abed's methods have changed the way global policymakers think about poverty\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Measuring Inequality
What do we mean by inequality comparisons? If the rich just get richer and the poor get poorer, the answer might seem easy. But what if the income distribution changes in a complicated way? Can we use mathematical or statistical techniques to simplify the comparison problem in a way that has economic meaning? What does it mean to measure inequality? Is it similar to National Income? Or price index? Is it enough just to work out the Gini coefficient? This book tackles these questions and examines the underlying principles of inequality measurement and its relation to welfare economics, distributional analysis, and information theory. The book covers modern theoretical developments in inequality analysis, as well as showing how the way we think about inequality today has been shaped by classic contributions in economics and related disciplines. Formal results and detailed literature discussion are provided in two appendices. The principal points are illustrated in the main text, using examples from US and UK data, as well as other data sources, and associated web materials provide hands-on learning.
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UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice
UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at once a
history of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classical
economists to the recent emphasis on human rights, and a history of the UN's role in
shaping and implementing development paradigms over the last half century. The
authors, all prominent in the field of development studies, argue that the UN's
founding document, the UN Charter, is infused with the human values and human
concerns that are at the center of the UN's thinking on economic and human
development today. In the intervening period, the authors show how the UN's approach
to development evolved from mainstream areas of economic development to include
issues of employment, poverty reduction, fairer distribution of the benefits of
growth, equality of men and women, child development, social justice, and
environmental sustainability.
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Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck
In a deeply unequal world, our economic status shapes
our pursuit of virtue whether we have enough resources to live
comfortably or struggle to survive
Our understanding of inequality as a moral problem is
incomplete. It is not enough to say that inequality is caused by
moral failing. We must also see that influence runs in both
directions. Inequality harms people's moral development.
In Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck , Kate Ward addresses
the issue of inequality from the perspective of Christian virtue
ethics, arguing that moral luck-our individual life
circumstances-affects our ability to pursue virtue. Economic status
functions as moral luck and impedes the ability of both the wealthy
and the poor to pursue virtues such as prudence, justice, and
temperance, and extreme inequality exacerbates the impact of wealth
and poverty on virtue.
With these realities in mind, Ward shows how Christians and
Christian communities should respond to the challenges inequality
poses to virtue. Through working to change the structures that
perpetuate extreme inequality-and through spiritual practices,
including contentment, conversion, encountering others, and
reminding ourselves of our ultimate dependence on God-Ward believes
that we can create a world where all people can pursue and achieve
virtue.
In Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck , Kate Ward addresses
the issue of inequality from the perspective of Christian virtue
ethics, arguing that our individual life circumstances affect our
ability to pursue virtue and showing how Christians and Christian
communities should respond to create a world where it is easier for
people to be virtuous.
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The paradox of hope
Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. The Paradox of Hope focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chronic medical conditions. Cheryl Mattingly proposes a narrative phenomenology of practice as she explores case stories in this highly readable study. Depicting the multicultural urban hospital as a border zone where race, class, and chronic disease intersect, this theoretically innovative study illuminates communities of care that span both clinic and family and shows how hope is created as an everyday reality amid trying circumstances.
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Pictures of Poverty
From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's
How the Poor Live , illustrated accounts of poverty were en
vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on
the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or
in 'documentary' photographs taken in the slums. London and its
street life were the preferred setting for George Robert Sims's
rousing ballads and the numerous magic lantern slide series and
silent films based on them. Sims was a popular journalist and
dramatist, whose articles, short stories, theatre plays and ballads
discussed overcrowding, drunkenness, prostitution and child poverty
in dramatic and heroic episodes from the lives and deaths of the
poor. Richly illustrated and drawing from many previously unknown
sources, Pictures of Poverty is a comprehensive account of
the representation of poverty throughout the Victorian period,
whether disseminated in newspapers, illustrated books and lectures,
presented on the theatre stage or projected on the screen in magic
lantern and film performances. Detailed case studies reveal the
intermedial context of these popular pictures of poverty and their
mobility across genres. With versatile author George R. Sims as the
starting point, this study explores the influence of visual media
in historical discourses about poverty and the highly controversial
role of the Victorian state in poor relief.
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Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 The first social and cultural history of vagrancy between 1650 and 1750, this book combines sources from across England and the Atlantic world to describe the shifting and desperate experiences of the very poorest and most marginalized of people in early modernity; the outcasts, the wandering destitute, the disabled veteran, the aged labourer, the solitary pregnant woman on the road and those referred to as vagabonds and beggars are all explored in this comprehensive account of the subject. Using a rich array of archival and literary sources, Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750 offers a history not only of the experiences of vagrants themselves, but also of how the settled 'better sort' perceived vagrancy, how it was culturally represented in both popular and elite literature as a shadowy underworld of dissembling rogues, gypsies, and pedlars, and how these representations powerfully affected the lives of vagrants themselves. Hitchcock's is an important study for all scholars and students interested in the social and cultural history of early modern England.
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Poverty Reduction and Growth
That raising income levels alleviates poverty, and that economic growth can be more or less effective in doing so, is well known and has received renewed attention in the search for pro-poor growth. What is less well explored is the reverse channel: that poverty may, in fact, be part of the reason for a countrys poor growth performance. This more elabborated view of the development process opens the door to the existence of vicious circles in which low growth results in high poverty and high poverty in turn results in low growth. Poverty Reduction and Growth is about the existence of these vicious circles in Latin America and the Caribbean about the ways and means to convert them into virtuous circles in which poverty reduction and high growth reinforce each other. Through its analysis of fresh data and the attention it pays to issues such as the persistent inequality in the region, the role played by various microdeterminants of income, and the potential existence of human capital underinvestment traps, this title should be a valuable contribution to the current regional debate on poverty and growth, a debate that is critical to the design of policies conducive to enhancing welfare in all is dimensions among the poor of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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