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Our understanding of what constituted the industrial revolution has changed fundamentally in recent decades. Sir E. A. Wrigley, the leading historian of industrial England, here sets out to expose the inadequacy of what was once the received wisdom and to suggest what he believes should stand in...
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This new book provides a selection of writings that cover trade, equity and development in Asia. Clem Tisdell, T.N. Srinivasan, Gustav Ranis and others write on countries from Pakistan and India to Korea and Indonesia
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The developing world's poorest people live in marginal, often harsh rural environments. The natural resource base tends to be fragile and highly vulnerable to over exploitation. Yet these rural people depend directly on access to the food, forage, fuel, fibre, water, medicines, and building...
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Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: My Experience Researching Poverty overthe Past … 35 Years -- Chapter: 3Poverty in Hong Kong -- Chapter 4: Setting the Poverty Line: Policy Implicationsfor Squaring the … andHuman Capital Management:Does Education Help Reduce Inequalityand Poverty in Hong Kong? -- Chapter 7: Is Social Capital as …
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for Social Protection Analysis -- Social Protection Definitions -- Economic Welfare, Poverty, and Inequality Indicators … -- Social Protection Programs' Effect on Poverty and Inequality -- Social Protection System Diagnostics Using Performance …Appendix B: Formulas -- Notation -- Poverty Measures -- Inequality Measures -- SP Performance Indices -- Note …
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Measuring Poverty -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Summary and Recommendations -- THE CURRENT … POVERTY MEASURE: EVALUATION -- RECOMMENDATION: A NEW POVERTY MEASURE -- SETTING AND UPDATING THE POVERTY THRESHOLD … -- ADJUSTING THE THRESHOLD -- DEFINING FAMILY RESOURCES -- EFFECTS -- NEEDED DATA -- OTHER ISSUES IN POVERTY MEASUREMENT …
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FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Background -- 2 Setting and Updating Thresholds -- 3 Equivalence Scales -- 4 Geographic Adjustments to Thresholds -- 5 Medical Expenses -- 6 Work-Related and Child Care Expenses -- 7 Housing -- 8 Data Issues, Other Topics, and...
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-- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Insecurity, Poverty and Extreme Poverty- Xavier Godinot -- Part One -- Introduction: Resisting … Extreme Poverty Every Day-Xavier Godinot -- 1.The Child who Walked with Death:The Story of Paul in Burkina Faso -- 2. Gold … Poverty- Xavier Godinot -- Conclusion: The Eradication of Extreme Poverty: A Civilising Project- Xavier Godinot -- Index. …
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-Making of the Model Citizen -- 7 The "Made in Québec" Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion: The Complex Relationship … between Poverty and Human Rights -- 8 Accounting for Rights and Money in the Canadian Social Union -- Part 3: Social …
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threat to poverty eradication -- By 2030, rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most (but not all …) climate change impacts on poverty -- Emissions-reduction policies are required to remove the long-term threat from climate … change, and need not threaten progress on poverty reduction -- In conclusion -- References -- 1 From Climate Change to …
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