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Poverty and Poverty Discourses
2017Chapter 2 discusses how poverty was socially constructed in Athens by examining the discourses surrounding penia within the surviving literary evidence. This chapter is therefore concerned with how the Athenians thought about and wrote about poverty and the poor.
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Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 1992
A perusal of the abstracts of papers presented at the twenty-third annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiological Research at Snowbird, Utah (June 12-15, 1990) [1], made me wonder whether epidemiology, in the absence of epidemics, is not a misnomer for scaremongering made respectable by the use of sophisticated statistical methods, and whether one ...
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A perusal of the abstracts of papers presented at the twenty-third annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiological Research at Snowbird, Utah (June 12-15, 1990) [1], made me wonder whether epidemiology, in the absence of epidemics, is not a misnomer for scaremongering made respectable by the use of sophisticated statistical methods, and whether one ...
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Pediatrics, 1987
To the Editor.— In his commentary on "Pediatrics and Poverty" (Pediatrics 1987;79:567-569), Dr Oberg expresses alarm about the increase in the percentage of children defined as living in poverty, being "malnourished," being homeless, and lacking health insurance. He quotes assertions about "an increasing incidence of low birth weight and
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To the Editor.— In his commentary on "Pediatrics and Poverty" (Pediatrics 1987;79:567-569), Dr Oberg expresses alarm about the increase in the percentage of children defined as living in poverty, being "malnourished," being homeless, and lacking health insurance. He quotes assertions about "an increasing incidence of low birth weight and
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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 mystery of capital : the role of property rights in creating wealth and alleviating poverty
, 2004H. D. Soto
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A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures
, 1984J. Foster, J. Greer, E. Thorbecke
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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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Income and Poverty in the United States: 2013
, 2014Carmen DeNavas-Walt +1 more
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