Progress for the poor / Lane Kenworthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenworthy, Lane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor--Government policy.

Poor.

Cost and standard of living--Government policy.

Cost and standard of living.

Economic development--Social aspects.

Economic development.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-154) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 19, 2012).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-162048-3

0-19-967692-5

1-283-35259-1

0-19-161861-6

9786613352590

OCLC:

764414456