23,330 research outputs found
Poverty portrayals performing social exclusion in Hungarian factual entertainment television programs
No full textPoor getting richer and the rich-poor gap getting smaller?
No full textThe author asks what 'win-win' public policies can substantially reduce the percentage of people who live in absolute poverty and enable the poor to become richer even if the rich also become richer.This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p
Pro-poor growth : A primer
No full textThese days it seems that almost everyone in the development community is talking about"pro-poor growth."What exactly is it, and how can we measure it? Is ordinary economic growth always"pro-poor growth"or is that some special kind of growth? And if it is something special, what makes it happen? The author first reviews alternative approaches to defining and measuring"pro-poor growth."He then analyzes evidence on whether growth is pro-poor, what factors make it more pro-poor (including the role played by both initial inequality and changing inequality), and whether the factors that make the distribution of the gains from growth pro-poor come at a cost to growth. The author identifies some priorities for future research.Poverty Reduction Strategies,Services&Transfers to Poor,Public Health Promotion,Economic Conditions and Volatility,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Achieving Shared Growth,Governance Indicators,Economic Conditions and Volatility,Inequality,Services&Transfers to Poor
Targeting assistance to the poor using household survey data
No full textIt is important that limited government resources be channeled to the poor, but it is not always easy to identify the poor. Which households should be given tranfers when reliable information on incomes is difficult to obtain? The authors of this paper present a simple method for targeting when income is not observable but other characteristics that are correlated with income can be observed. Using survey data taken from Cote d'Ivoire, they predict incomes based on observable characteristics and distribute transfers on the basis of those predictions. It appears that significant reductions in poverty can be achieved using this method.Environmental Economics&Policies,Rural Poverty Reduction,Services&Transfers to Poor,Safety Nets and Transfers,Poverty Assessment
Poor Little Rich Girls (After Warhol)
No full textPoor Little Rich Girls (After Warhol) is a cinematic homage to, and conceptual remake, of Andy Warhol's Poor Little Rich Girl (1965) featuring Factory superstar Edie Sedgwick. Some 50 years later: Warhol's film has been re-imagined, re-performed, remixed and revived for the digital age. Gracie Otto performs the role of Edie Sedgwick. Jack Sargeant re-stages the role of an off-screen Chuck Wein, a spectral presence in the film. Feature film invited to screen at: Vivid Sydney 2013: Festival of Light, Music and Ideas; The Sydney Underground Film Festival; The London and Portugal Underground Film Festival; Cine-B Festival (Chile). Excerpts shown at the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Sydney. J1 - ERA Context Statement to be supplied by author
When is growth pro-poor? Cross-country evidence
No full textGrowth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. According to this definition there are three potential sources of pro-poor growth: (1) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (2) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (3) a poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. The author empirically decomposes changes in poverty in a large sample of developing countries during the 1980s and 1990s into these three components. In the medium to long run, most of the variation in changes in poverty can be attributed to growth in average incomes, suggesting that policies and institutions that promote broad-based growth should be central to the pro-poor growth agenda. Most of the remainder of the variation in poverty is due to poverty-reducing patterns of growth in relative incomes, rather than differences in the sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes. Cross-country evidence provides relatively little guidance as to the policies and institutions that promote these other sources of pro-poor growth.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Public Health Promotion,Poverty Reduction Strategies,Economic Conditions and Volatility,Services&Transfers to Poor,Achieving Shared Growth,Inequality,Governance Indicators,Economic Conditions and Volatility,Health Monitoring&Evaluation
‘Poor old horse’: responding creatively to place and custom
No full textConference paper introducing the East Kent house calling custom of Hoodening as a form of intangible heritage, with screening of short film ‘Poor Old Horse’, made by the author
Rich Dad Poor Dad: An Entrepreneurial Approach to the Teaching of Business French
No full textUS higher education has focused on the development of new cadres of employees to the near exclusion of entrepreneurship as a career path. In this article, the authors describe an entrepreneurial approach to the teaching of Business French. The senior author served as the course instructor while the junior author was a student who completed the course. To provide an entry into the world of global entrepreneurship, the senior author selected the French translation of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad. In parallel with the reading of Rich Dad, students completed a series of entrepreneurial course activities. Selected activities are described from the perspectives of both authors. The article ends with students’ feelings about (1) entrepreneurship, (2) future career plans, (3) the theme of the course, and (4) the use of Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad
The blind, the deaf and the halt : physical disability, the Poor Law and charity c. 1830-1890, with particular reference to the County
No full textThis thesis examines the situation of the physically disabled poor over the period c. 1830-1890. It concentrates initially on the treatment of these individuals under the Poor Law and then proceeds to examine voluntary provision, focusing in particular on the special schools that were established at this time. Although a national (English) perspective is adopted for an analysis of the Poor Law, the impact of special education is examined in the form of a Yorkshire regional case study.
The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act created a distinct administrative category encompassing the blind and deaf. This differentiation between groups of those hitherto
classed as the `impotent' poor was to have important consequences for all sectors of the disabled population. Whereas increasing numbers of blind and deaf children were
gradually removed into the care of the voluntary institutions, other `non-able-bodied' persons found themselves under the auspices of a deliberately harsh state system.
Schools operating within the voluntary sector soon began to extend and diversify the benefits they could offer. They fostered a sense of community and perhaps even a distinctive identity amongst their pupils. In the longer term they helped to alter public attitudes towards blind and deaf people. Schools encouraged the development of
professional expertise and their staff served as advocates and campaigners on behalf of their pupils. The growing availability of special education operated as a counterweight to economic and social exclusion.
The absence of comprehensive specialist provision meant that the situation of other physically disabled people was often grim. Such individuals tended to merge into the
mass of the poor and details about their condition can be hard to distinguish from other groups who comprised the `residuum' of Victorian society. The impact of changing
attitudes to poverty and the role of the state, particularly in the areas of child education and health, are further examined
Does globalization hurt the poor?
No full textAg?or attempts to examine analytically and empirically the extent to which globalization affects the poor in low- and middle-income countries. He begins with a description of various channels through which trade openness and financial integration may have an adverse effect on poverty. However, the author also stresses the possible nonlinearities involved-possibilities that have seldom been recognized in the ongoing debate. Ag?or then presents cross-country regressions that relate measures of real and financial integration to poverty. The regressions control for changes in income per capita and output growth rates, as well as various other macroeconomic and structural variables, such as the inflation tax, changes in the real exchange rate and the terms of trade, health and schooling indicators, and macroeconomic volatility. The author uses not only individual indicators of trade and financial openness but also a"globalization index"based on principal components analysis, and tests for both linear and nonlinear effects. The results suggest the existence of a nonmonotonic, Laffer-type relationship between globalization and poverty. At low levels, globalization appears to hurt the poor; but beyond a certain threshold, it seems to reduce poverty-possibly because it brings with it renewed impetus for reform. So, globalization may hurt the poor not because it went too far, but rather because it did not go far enough.Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Labor Policies,Environmental Economics&Policies,Fiscal&Monetary Policy,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Achieving Shared Growth,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Banks&Banking Reform
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