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healthcare; politics; poverty; aid; development; Africa

Intro -- Contents -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 THE MAKING AND REMAKING OF HUMAN RIGHTS: CONTEMPORARY LIMITS AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS TO THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH -- Chapter 2 "I'M GONNA GET MY SHARE OF WHAT'S MINE": NARRATIVES OF POVERTY AND CRIME IN POSTCOLONIAL JAMAICA AND KENYA -- Chapter 3 CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS: A NEW PARADIGM FOR COMBATING POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA? -- Chapter 4 NEODEVELOPMENTALISM IN ARGENTINA: ITS CONTRADICTIONS, BARRIERS, AND LIMITS TO POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- Chapter 5 ALTERNATIVE PATHS OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN SUBSAHARIAN AFRICA: A CASE FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS BY THE POOR -- Chapter 6 SCOPE AND USEFULNESS OF "RIGHT TO INFORMATION" AS ANTI-POVERTY TOOL: THE BANGLADESH EXPERIENCE -- Chapter 7 PERI-URBAN DWELLING AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN AFRICA -- Chapter 8 ANALYSIS OF WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS AS DRIVERS OF GENDERED SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: EXPERIENCES FROM ZIMBABWE -- Chapter 9 CIVIL SOCIETY MOVEMENTS AND RIGHTS DISCOURSE IN POSTAPARTHEID SOCIOECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION -- CONCLUSION.

The aim of this paper is to highlights the importance of humand development towards poverty alleviation with compares the different region status. This research uses econometric methodology with dummy variable regression analysis tools. The results showed that were no significant differences related to poverty conditions in origin and expansion. Overall, the conditions of poverty in origin and expansion in Eastern Indonesia are almost the same. Interesting findings in this study specifically indicate that an increase in the quality of human resources is able to reduce poverty in origin and expansion regions. It is expected, with regional autonomy through government expenses policies that are prioritized on improving the quality of human resources in various aspects able to overcome poverty in the origin and expansion regions.

"Das Forschungsprojekt diskutiert die Definitionen von Armut und Reichtum sowie die grundsätzlichen Fragen bei der Weiterentwicklung der konzeptionellen Grundlagen für eine regelmäßige Armuts- und Reichtumsberichterstattung. Hierbei wird zunächst der Stand der Armuts- und Reichtumsforschung - Begriffe, Definitionen und Methoden - in Deutschland skizziert. Darin anschließend wird ein Konzept von Armut bzw. Reichtum an 'Verwirklichungschancen' in Anlehnung an die Arbeiten des Nobelpreisträgers für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Amartya Sen, vorgestellt. Auf Basis dieser konzeptionellen Grundlage werden wesentliche methodische Fragestellungen erörtert und Messkonzepte sowie Vorschläge für geeignete Indikatoren zur Armuts- und Reichtumsmessung erarbeitet. Den Abschluss bildet ein Ausblick auf (Daten-)Anforderungen sowie auf weitergehenden Forschungsbedarf." (Autorenreferat)

In this volume, the author seeks to analyze various aspects of growing inequality of income in society. What is income inequality? How is it measured? How does it relate to poverty? The author addresses these and other conceptual issues in the book.

There are many problems regarding poverty, inequality and growth in developing countries in Asia and Africa. Policy makers at the national level and at international institutions such as the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and others have implemented various policies in order to decrease poverty and inequality. This book provides empirical observations on Asian countries and Africa. Each chapter provides theoretical and empirical analysis on regional case studies with an emphasis on policy implications. The book will be of use to many who wish to assess and improve policies in developing countries and mitigate poverty and inequality, and stimulate growth, by drawing on relevant empirical research and economic theories. Clearly, there have been numerous policy failures and the book aims to provide a basis for improving policies and outcomes based on relevant empirical observations.

Mundle, Chakraborty, Chowdhury and Sikdar (2012) developed the first quality of governance (QoG) measures to assess the performance of India's states. The present article builds on Mundle et al.'s (2012) framework by analyzing the relationship between their QoG measures and absolute child poverty in India. The empirical analysis also includes corruption indicators from Transparency International to test the relative importance of corruption and governance for combating child poverty. I combine macro (states) and micro data (children) with multilevel statistical models to achieve this task. A key finding is that governance has more explanatory power than corruption. Further, among Mundleetal.'s six measures, the BORDA measure performs consistently better and explains about 60 per cent of the between-states variation: one unit improvement in BORDA yields about 1 per cent decrease in absolute child poverty. The sensitivity of this inference is tested with regards to severe education, shelter and food deprivation.

This study of the impact of poverty alleviation programmes considers the state of research on evaluation including the social dimension and the methodology; illustrates the evolution of evaluation in the field of development co-operation; and shows successful and inadequate analyzing methods

Poverty is a multidimensional problem since it is not only an economic problem but also a social, political and even cultural problem. The purpose of this research is to identify the determinant factor of social poverty in the mountain region of Talegong Subdistrict. The research type is quantitative descriptive with field survey method. The analysis technique using descriptive statistics and the sample is determined by purposive random sampling. The concept of social poverty uses BPS and Chambers indicators. Respondents interviewed were village heads, LPMDes, community leaders and communities in seven villages in Talegong sub-district. Based on the results of observations and interviews with respondents, there are four determinants of social poverty in Talegong sub-district: the factor of poverty itself, abandonment, alienation & remoteness and vulnerable to natural disasters. While three other factors such as physical, mental and social neglect factors; social impairment factor and behavioral deviation from religious and community norms, and factors of victims and physical, mental and social violence were not found in Talegong sub-district.

AbstractThis article analyses the pattern of poverty and social exclusion in the Czech Republic and the impact of social policy on this pattern. The analysis is mostly based on data from the Czech Survey on Social Conditions of Households (2001; 27,000 respondents); Eurostat data provide a benchmark for making international comparisons. The poverty rate in the Czech Republic is among the lowest in Europe. On the other hand, material deprivation, as well as concentration of poverty within specific population groups, is high, with the unemployed facing the highest risk of poverty. Social policy measures in effect reinforce this pattern: while the benefit system is highly redistributive and effectively eliminates income poverty among households of employed persons and among pensioners, incomes of persons outside paid employment are protected less effectively. Labour market policy measures are insufficient in scope and inadequate in targeting groups which are facing the highest risk of labour market exclusion and poverty. We argue that although this practice is effective at present, it is not sustainable in the long term.

It is argued that the current conservative Republican agenda is a repudiation of the ideology of progressive social reform that has guided US politics for the past 100 years & is indicative of deeper problems in US liberal democracy. In this context, the New Progressivism is examined, & fallacies of the progressive vision are critiqued: (1) materialist fallacy, new progressive literature neglects the cultural & symbolic aspects of politics in favor of a strictly materialist analysis; (2) voluntarist fallacy, the new progressives' failure to recognize the irreversibility of history in their attempts to revitalize class-based politics; (3) rationalistic fallacy, the belief that the setbacks suffered by progressivism will be reversed because the promotion of progressivist ideals will inexorably lead to reform; (4) historicist fallacy, the progressivist belief that adversity must eventually yield to triumph & progress; & (5) historical fallacy, the tendency to view contemporary socioeconomic conditions as similar to conditions during the original period of progressive reform, discounting differences between the two eras. Localist democracy is presented as a potential solution to these fallacies, & examples of social movements based on localist democratic principles are presented. J. Ferrari