This volume presents a variety of papers on issues related to growth, development and poverty prepared by specialists in their particular developme...

Since its beginning in 1965 as a part of the War on Poverty, Head Start's goal has been to boost the school readiness of low-income children. Based...

There are over a half million people experiencing homelessness in the United States, nearly 160,000 of them are children, and nearly 38,000 are vet...

Low-income families with housing problems are found in every section of the United States. They are located in large cities like Los Angeles and Ne...

Text in Arabic. Drawing on 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, authors Banerjee and Duflo have identified new aspects of ...

At a time when poor Americans are struggling to keep their jobs, homes and basic necessities for their families, it is crucial for the federal gove...

In recent years, microfinance in India has emerged as the most suitable and practical alternative to conventional banking in reaching the hitherto ...

Freedom of poverty is a universal human prerogative and right. Hence the tackling of poverty in developing countries is a social obligation for gov...

Using survey information about characteristics of personal contacts linked with administrative register information on employment status one year l...

Poverty in modern societies has been of utmost importance and always is considered as a global issue. Most economic policies of governments have di...

Poverty estimates—the number and percentage of persons living in poverty—have been of interest to Congress not only to gauge the nation’s economic ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, but poverty remains a difficult policy challenge. The Obama Administration and some in ...

Poverty reduction and inequality are undeniably the buzz issues of the millennium. And where else would one go to understand the dynamics and parad...

Poverty, while not a disease process, is well-known to have far-reaching effects on the health of children and adolescents. In developing countries...

Poverty is a social fact of life for billions of people around the world. The developed countries abhor poverty, or seem to, for several reasons. P...

Over the past few decades poverty has emerged as a global problem and a global agenda item in need of action. For that reason, the United Nations m...

In 2011, the U.S. poverty rate was 15.0% -- 46.2 million persons were estimated as having income below the official poverty line. Neither the pover...

This book deals with poverty monitoring and alleviation in East Asia. This is currently an area of great interest to scholars, activists, policy-ma...

This book addresses the state of poverty and its effects on education and development. It is organised into two sections: Poverty, socio-economics,...

The aim of this book is to provide the reader with the broad spectrum of poverty and social policy issues in Central and Eastern Europe, and addres...

This new and timely book deals with the magnitude and the intensity of the poverty in Latin America, Mexico and the state of Nuevo Leon. The enormo...

Poverty alleviation is a common issue facing the majority of the Third World countries. Since the 1970s, the fact that the number of the poor in so...

Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Af...

Bulk of India's population lives in rural areas. According to 2011 Census, rural population formed 68.8 percent of the total population of the coun...

According to 2011 Census, rural population formed 68.8 percent of the total population of India. With prospect of industrialisation and the consequ...

The origin of rural poverty is complex and multidimensional. Some aspects of this origin include culture, climate, gender, markets, and public poli...

This book takes stock of the diverse and divergent welfare trajectories of post-socialist countries across Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily to increase the food purchasing...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily to increase the food purchasing...

Access to adequate food and nutrition is a fundamental human right. However, a significant population worldwide presently suffers from malnutrition...

This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent ...

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant provides federal grants to states for a wide range of benefits, services, and activi...

In these Gasson Lectures, Frank Brennan addresses various contested contemporary issues such as church-state relations, physician assisted suicide ...

In these Gasson Lectures, Frank Brennan addresses various contested contemporary issues such as church-state relations, physician assisted suicide ...

The idea of a democratic developmental state forms part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated o...

This book brings forth debates on the production and eradication of poverty from experiences in the global South. It collects a set of innovative a...