-- Cash transfers for older people reduce poverty and inequality / Armando Barrientos -- Mineral wealth, conflict and …

wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies …

political debate surrounding poverty. Policy changes included a radical shift in welfare policy, a sizable expansion in supports … plummeted, work rose dramatically among single parents, and poverty was reduced. At the same time, there are indications that …

Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both … official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty …, or policy-account for the observed changes in poverty in the two nations and what role could policy play in reducing …