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On poverty and the persistence of poverty in Benin
Journal of Economic Studies, 2016Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of poverty and the persistence of poverty in Benin using a longitudinal data for the years 2006-2011. The paper also seeks to understand the dynamic of poverty and what factors explain households’ mobility across poverty status over time.
Edwige Rose Fiamohe +2 more
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The Statistics of Poverty-Or the Poverty of Statistics?
International Studies Review, 2015Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About It. By Morten Jerven. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. 187 pp., $22.95 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-801-47860-4). Who knew a book about statistics could be so interesting? Admittedly, Poor Numbers is not a typical book about statistics.
Stephen Brown, Stephen Brown
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Poverty Lines and Their Role in Reducing Poverty
2020A full-length article which reviews the history of poverty lines and reviews their role in tackling poverty.
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Poverty Spending and the Poverty Gap
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1987This paper examines two questions basic to welfare policy: (1) whether the amount of poverty-related transfers is sufficient to fill the poverty gap, and (2) which families actually get benefits and how much of their income deficit is filled by those benefits.
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The Poverty of Statistics and the Statistics of Poverty
Third World Quarterly, 2009Abstract This paper offers a critique of the picture of world growth and world inequality generally disseminated by international agencies. The positive view commonly presented depends on the widespread consensus that economic performance should be measured using ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ (PPP) statistics, instead of market exchange rates.
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2011
The opening chapter in the section on 'The Nature of Poverty' in Poverty in Scotland 2021, the latest in a series providing an essential resource for politicians, policy makers, teachers, community activists, service providers, academics, students and all those working to end poverty. This chapter introduces the concept of poverty.
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The opening chapter in the section on 'The Nature of Poverty' in Poverty in Scotland 2021, the latest in a series providing an essential resource for politicians, policy makers, teachers, community activists, service providers, academics, students and all those working to end poverty. This chapter introduces the concept of poverty.
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Culture of Poverty or Poverty of Culture?
Monthly Review, 1967Review of La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty, San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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2011
Book abstract: In a year in which Scotland’s constitutional future is to be decided, this latest in the Poverty in Scotland series provides an indispensable overview of the poverty and anti-poverty policies that form an increasingly important backdrop to the wider independence debate.
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Book abstract: In a year in which Scotland’s constitutional future is to be decided, this latest in the Poverty in Scotland series provides an indispensable overview of the poverty and anti-poverty policies that form an increasingly important backdrop to the wider independence debate.
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New Dimensions of Vulnerability to Energy and Transport Poverty
Joule, 2021Benjamin K Sovacool +2 more
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