Poverty Spending And The Poverty Gap
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Author | : Daniel H. Weinberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Income maintenance programs |
ISBN | : |
This paper examines two questions basic to welfare policy: (1) whether the amount of poverty-related transfers is sufficient to fill the poverty gap, and (2) which families actually get benefits and how much of their income deficit is filled by those benefits. Transfers are sufficient: the post-Social Security poverty gap is $74 billion while poverty-related programs total $198 billion. Further, 86% of current income-conditioned benefits go to the pretransfer poor and 89% of those were used to alleviate poverty (fill the poverty gap). Thus, if a substantial fraction of total Federal and State expenditures on poverty-related programs could be targeted more toward the poor, the poverty gap can be eliminated. The current programs, however, would have to be changed substantially to achieve the necessary retargeting.
Author | : Dominique Van de Walle |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
The book offers a critical assessment of the state of current knowledge on the distributional impacts of public spending for developing and transition countries. It focuses on the distribution of benefits from spending categories that have traditionally been seen as pro-poor, including education and health expenditures, food subsidies, cash transfers, and public employment schemes.
Author | : James P. Ziliak |
Publisher | : Now Publishers Inc |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Economic history |
ISBN | : 1933019271 |
Understanding Poverty Rates and Gaps surveys key developments in applied and theoretical research on poverty rates and poverty gaps over the past two decades, providing a detailed analysis of poverty trends across a variety of income measures and poverty indexes.
Author | : Jonathan Haughton |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2009-03-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821376144 |
For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, this Handbook is the place to start. It is designed to be accessible to people with a university-level background in science or the social sciences. It is an invaluable tool for policy analysts, researchers, college students, and government officials working on policy issues related to poverty and inequality.
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 619 |
Release | : 2019-09-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0309483980 |
The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.
Author | : Gary T. Burtless |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Expenditures, Public |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United Nations |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1849666180 |
The contributors are big names in the world of Development StudiesNo direct competitionThe only similar series is straight economics whereas our title engages with issues of political economy and has a focus on policy and practice
Author | : Sheldon Danziger |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780674008762 |
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. Understanding Poverty brings the problem of poverty in America to the fore, focusing on its nature and extent at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Looking back over the four decades since the nation declared war on poverty, the authors ask how the poor have fared in the market economy, what government programs have and have not accomplished, and what remains to be done. They help us understand how changes in the way the labor market operates, in family structure, and in social welfare, health, and education policies have affected trends in poverty. Most significantly, they offer suggestions for changes in programs and policies that hold real promise for reducing poverty and income inequality.
Author | : Kathryn H. Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Budget |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anisuzzaman (Anis) Chowdhury |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1849664528 |
This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. It is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty remains stubbornly high in many parts of the world. This collection argues that the mainstream perspectives on poverty and deprivation have contributed to considerable distortion and misunderstanding and that is not unrelated to ineffectual policy perscriptions. In particular it highlights the World Bank's dollar-a-day measure of poverty and exposes the inadequacies of Bretton Woods-inspired poverty reduction programmes.