-- Purpose and Organization of the Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Rural Nonfarm Growth and Poverty Reduction … -- Introduction -- Poverty Trends -- Income Growth Trends -- Poverty Reduction and Growth of the Rural Nonfarm Sector -- Linkages …

-- Abbreviations -- Overview -- A Successful Decade with Challenges Ahead -- A Framework for Studying Chronic Poverty -- Measuring … Chronic Poverty in the Absence of Longitudinal Data -- Five Stylized Facts about Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the …Chapter 2: What Is Chronic Poverty and How Is It Measured? -- Conceptual Underpinnings -- The Empirical Challenges of …

This report shows that decent work is vital to reducing poverty. Poverty has tended to decline in many emerging and … poverty. The report examines the role that policy can play, particularly with economic policies, employment programmes … boxes -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Part I. Jobs and earnings of the poor -- 1. Poverty and the world of work: A …

The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and … surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the ways in …

1. The Color of Child Poverty. 2. Wealth and Poverty among America's Children. 3. From the Era of the Middle Class to … the Era of the Wealthy Class. 4. One Down, One to Go: Government Efforts to End Poverty among Seniors and Children. 5. The … Failure of Welfare Reform for Poor Children. 6. An End to Welfare and Maybe Even Child Poverty. 7. Embracing Wealth: An Asset …

How has the U.S. dealt, throughout its long history, with one of the worlds oldest problems? Although poverty has … been static. Poverty in America has its own turbulent history of causes, effects, and remedies, from debtor's prison to the … War on Poverty, from Social Darwinism to food stamps. This in-depth encyclopedia covers the entire history of American …

The first five papers in this volume focus on Latin American poverty and inequality, an understudied topic. Additional …

-Saharan Africa is also one of the most unequal. In this context, redistribution must be seen as a legitimate way to fight poverty and …