This volume contains papers from the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality's third meeting held in Buenos Aries, Argentina, in July 2009. The first five papers focus on a number of Latin American countries, on the understudied topics of poverty and inequality in these areas. Specific...

"The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and it was in 2014 halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is to a high degree the consequence of the rapid economic development in a few countries,...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Growth and Distribution since the Cold War -- Chapter 3: A Model of Global Consumption, Output and Distribution -- Chapter 4: Global Poverty by Different Poverty Lines since the Cold War -- Chapter 5: The End of Global Poverty -- Chapter 6: Conclusion

Introduction -- (Re)considering poverty and place in the U.S -- The changing geography of poverty in the U.S -- The local safety net response -- Understanding metropolitan social service safety nets -- Rethinking poverty, rethinking policy

Nicht alle Regionen sind in Deutschland gleichermaßen von Einkommensarmut betroffen. Um die besonders armutsgefährdeten Gebiete zu identifizieren, ist es wichtig, regionale Preisunterschiede zu berücksichtigen. Mit dem Maßstab der so ermittelten Kaufkraftarmut bewertet, treten die größeren...

Armut in allen Formen zu beenden ist das erklärte Ziel der Vereinten Nationen. Aber was ist Armut? Und wer ist arm? Ist Armut messbar? Wie lässt sich Armut bekämpfen? Philipp Lepenies führt kundig und kompetent in ein komplexes Thema ein, das die Welt bewegt. Sein Buch stellt die wichtigsten...

"The Self-Help Myth reveals how philanthropy maintains systems of inequality by attracting attention to the behaviors and responsibilities of poor people while shifting the focus away from structural inequities and relationships of power that produce poverty. The book features foundation...