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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kenworthy, Lane
Corporate Author:	Oxford University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Poor > Government policy. Cost and standard of living > Government policy. Economic development > Social aspects. Social policy. Pauvres > Politique gouvernementale. Coût et niveau de la vie > Politique gouvernementale. Politique sociale. public policy. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions. Lutte contre la pauvreté. Croissance économique. Aspects sociaux. Qualité de la vie. Economic development > Social aspects Poor > Government policy Social policy Economics. POVERTY MITIGATION. SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED PERSONS. GOVERNMENT POLICY. COST OF LIVING. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. SOCIAL ASPECTS. SOCIAL POLICY. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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
AcknowledgmentsAppendix: Data Definitions and Sources
Notes
References
Index
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