Author : Bagicha Singh Minhas
Publisher : New Delhi : S. Chand
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
On Indian economic policy; critical review by an ex-member of the Planning Commission.
Author : Naomi Caiden
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412830881
This substantial treatment of budgeting in poor countries and discussion of the relationship between planning and budgeting covers over eighty nations and three-fourths of the worlds population. While there are many treatments of planning, the approach of this study is radically different. The authors argue that the requisites of comprehensive economic planning do not exist in poor countries, and that in the effort to create them, planners merge into the environment they have set out to change. Caiden and Wildavsky provide a unique and thorough examination of planning and budgeting by governments of poor countries throughout the world, and recommend reforms that are workable and realistic for these countries. They analyze the political, economic, and social developments that influence budgeting and planning in developing countries.
Author : Linda Tirado
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0425277976
The real-life Nickel and Dimed—the author of the wildly popular “Poverty Thoughts” essay tells what it’s like to be working poor in America. ONE OF THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Esquire “DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND FUNNY. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. TIRADO IS THE REAL THING.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, from the Foreword As the haves and have-nots grow more separate and unequal in America, the working poor don’t get heard from much. Now they have a voice—and it’s forthright, funny, and just a little bit furious. Here, Linda Tirado tells what it’s like, day after day, to work, eat, shop, raise kids, and keep a roof over your head without enough money. She also answers questions often asked about those who live on or near minimum wage: Why don’t they get better jobs? Why don’t they make better choices? Why do they smoke cigarettes and have ugly lawns? Why don’t they borrow from their parents? Enlightening and entertaining, Hand to Mouth opens up a new and much-needed dialogue between the people who just don’t have it and the people who just don’t get it.
Author : Steven T. Moga
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 022671053X
Interrogates the connections between a city’s physical landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal lowest points. In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City, Black Bottom in Nashville, Swede Hollow in Saint Paul, and the Flats in Los Angeles, to interrogate the connections between a city’s actual landscape and the poverty and social problems that are often concentrated at its literal lowest points. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective on the history of US urban development from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Moga reveals patterns of inequitable land use, economic dispossession, and social discrimination against immigrants and minorities. In attending to the landscapes of neighborhoods typically considered slums, Moga shows how physical and policy-driven containment has shaped the lives of the urban poor, while wealth and access to resources have been historically concentrated in elevated areas—truly “the heights.” Moga’s innovative framework expands our understanding of how planning and economic segregation alike have molded the American city.
Author : Curtis Ray
Publisher :
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781729218105
What is financial freedom and how do you achieve it? That is a question I asked myself in 2014. My name is Curtis Ray, from Gilbert, Arizona and the author of this book Everyone Ends Up Poor(tm). I want to tell you my story of financial discovery through family, entrepreneurism, product development, and an array of experiences. This is not a traditional story of an investment strategy secret or 401(k) success, but a story of true pursuit of knowledge, breaking down the whole system of financial planning, and discovering the inefficiencies and underwhelming results of the 401(k), IRA, Roth IRA and other traditional financial plans. Throughout the book I look back on my life of running numerous businesses, what I learned through rapid success, partnerships, my rise and fall of financial wealth, and what ultimately led me to a career in educating the public on the Rules of Money and how to achieve financial security.This book is like no book ever written. Explaining clearly why a 401(k), IRA, Roth IRA, and other traditional retirement vehicles are not your friend, were never designed to produce you a good retirement income, and why Everyone Ends Up Poor(tm). Once someone understands the pitfalls of the current financial system, I explain the steps that can be taken to improve your retirement success by up to 400%. Through the experience and knowledge found in my journey, anyone can start the path of financial freedom today. In this book I explain the 7 Rules of Money prosperity, the 9 pillars of financial planning, pitfalls to avoid as an entrepreneur, and the one-of-a-kind financial strategy called Maximum Premium Indexing or MPI(tm).Everyone Ends Up Poor(tm) will challenge every belief you have regarding the current financial planning system.
Author : Jean Drèze
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 1997-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198292043
"A study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER)."
Author : Diana Mitlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415624665
This is compounded by the lack of voice and influence that low income groups have in these official spheres.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : 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 : Goran Tannerfeldt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136561064
A world more urban... The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment. ...but less poor Unplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and slums are not explained by poverty alone. Urban misery also stems from misguided policies, inappropriate legal frameworks, dysfunctional markets, poor governance, and not least, lack of political will. Urbanization and economic development go hand-in-hand and the productivity of the urban economy can and should benefit everyone. Living conditions for the urban poor can be dramatically improved with proper solutions, backed by decisive, concerted action. More Urban - Less Poor brings order to the complex and important field of urban development in developing and transitional countries. Written in an accessible style, the book examines how cities grow, their economic development, urban poverty, housing and environmental problems. It also examines how to face these challenges through governance and management of urban growth, the finance and delivery of services, and finding a role for development cooperation. This is essential reading for development professionals, researchers, students and others working on any facet of urban development and management in our rapidly urbanizing world. Published with SIDA
Author : Robert A. Beauregard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 022629742X
City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world—from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms—yet most seem to have a poor understanding of the materiality of the world in which they’re immersed. Too often planners treat built forms, weather patterns, plants, animals, or regulatory technologies as passively awaiting commands rather than actively involved in the workings of cities and regions. In the ambitious and provocative Planning Matter, Robert A. Beauregard sets out to offer a new materialist perspective on planning practice that reveals the many ways in which the nonhuman things of the world mediate what planners say and do. Drawing on actor-network theory and science and technology studies, Beauregard lays out a framework that acknowledges the inevitable insufficiency of our representations of reality while also engaging more holistically with the world in all of its diversity—including human and nonhuman actors alike.
