Progress for the poor
One of the principal goals of antipoverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off. This book aims to enhance our understanding of how to do that drawing on the experiences of twenty affluent countries since the 1970s.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2011.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009841932406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; 1. Raise the Floor; 2. Growth Is Good for the Poor, If Social Policy Passes It On; 3. How Trickle Down Can Fail: The U.S. Case Lane Kenworthy and Keith Bentele; 4. Generous Social Policy Reduces Material Deprivation Lane Kenworthy, Jessica Epstein, and Daniel Duerr; 5. Low Wages Need Not Mean Low Incomes; 6. Targeting May Not Be So Bad; 7. Public Services Are an Important Antipoverty Tool; 8. The Tax Mix Matters Less Than We Thought; 9. The Aim Is Not Spending Per Se; 10. Tradeoffs?; 11. The Politics of Helping the Poor; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Data Definitions and Sources
- NotesReferences; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W
