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Entre la negación y la conciencia de desigualdad: percepciones subjetivas de la pobreza entre jóvenes urbanos
Garro Rojas, Lidieth - In: Revista de Ciencias Económicas 28 (2010) 10
Este artículo profundiza en las percepciones subjetivas que jóvenes habitantes de una barriada urbana pobre tienen de su propia condición de pobreza. Aunque no se perciben como pobres y más bien se consideran a sí mismos como pertenecientes a la clase media, los jóvenes que habitan en...
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Las desigualdades intrarregionales y la reducción de la pobreza en la región Chorotega
Sauma, Pablo - In: Revista de Ciencias Económicas 29 (2011) 01
Entre 1994 y 2009 la región Chorotega mostró una importante reducción en la incidencia de la pobreza vista como una situación de ingresos insuficientes. No obstante, esa incidencia sigue siendo una de las más elevadas entre las regiones del país. A partir de la utilización de una serie de...
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La pobreza como política pública: una reflexión desde la ciencia política
Hernández Ortiz, Evelyn - In: Revista de Ciencias Económicas 26 (2008) 01
Este artículo reflexiona sobre la forma en que las Administraciones Pacheco de la Espriella y Arias Sánchez han abordado el tema de la pobreza, como una política pública de la agenda política nacional, retomando algunos aportes conceptuales desde la ciencia política. El artículo comprende...
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Governing Through Resilience? Exploring Flood Protection in Dresden, Germany
Hutter, Gérard; Leibenath, Markus; Mattissek, Annika - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 2, pp. 272-287
The paper argues for a governmentality perspective on risk-management politics and resilience-related governance. This perspective pays ample attention to conflicts and discursive ‘battles’ in which different truths and normative assessments, including specific rationalities, subjectivities...
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Good governance in microcredit strategy for poverty reduction : focus on Western Mindanao, Philippines
Moreno, Frede G. - 2004
Microcredit can be an effective tool for tackling the global poverty problem. Making microcredit work better for the … economic options of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries within Third World economic and poverty conditions. Governance principles can … for poverty reduction and development. In view of the Philippine government’s limitations, economic and fiscal challenges …
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Levels and changes in income poverty, consumption poverty, and material well-being: A response to Shaefer and Rivera (2018)
Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - 2018
on trends in income and consumption-based poverty measures in the United States. …
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The use and misuse of income data and extreme poverty in the United States
Meyer, Bruce D.; Wu, Derek; Mooers, Victoria R.; … - 2019
More than half of all misclassified households have incomes from the administrative data above the poverty line, and … contrast, the households kept from extreme poverty by in-kind transfers appear to be among the most materially deprived …
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Ending homelessness: More housing or fewer shelters?
Corinth, Kevin C. - 2015
Over the past decade, a major effort to "end homelessness" has lead to a marked expansion in permanent housing for the homeless relative to shelters. In this paper, I use community-level data over the period 2007-2014 in the United States to estimate short and long run associations between...
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Using linked survey and administrative data to better measure income: Implications for poverty, program effectiveness and holes in the safety net
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2015
analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often …. Using the combined data rather than survey data alone, the poverty reducing effect of all programs together is nearly …
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The impact of social ties on homelessness
Corinth, Kevin C.; Rossi-de Vries, Claire - 2017
While almost all homeless people are poor, most poor people do not experience homelessness. We use a detailed national survey to explore the role of social ties - including connection to relatives, friends and religious community - in explaining why only a subset of poor adults fall into...
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