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Global Poverty (global + poverty)
Selected AbstractsASSESSING GLOBAL POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: INCOME, RESOURCES, AND CAPABILITIESMETAPHILOSOPHY, Issue 1-2 2005Ingrid Robeyns Abstract: Are global poverty and inequality on the rise or are they declining? And is the quality of life of the world's poorest people getting worse or better? These questions are often given conflicting answers by economists, the World Bank, and social activists. One reason for this is that assessments of quality of life can be made in terms of people's income, their resources, or their functionings and capabilities. This essay discusses the pros and cons of these evaluative approaches, and it argues that all approaches have complementary strengths and should therefore in principle all be considered. Moreover, being aware that assessments of poverty and inequality can be made using these different frameworks helps us to understand the conflicting claims. [source] New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global PovertyPOPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW, Issue 4 2007Martin Ravallion One-quarter of the world's consumption poor live in urban areas, and that proportion has been rising over time. Over 1993,2002, the count of the "$1 a day" poor fell by 150 million in rural areas but rose by 50 million in urban areas. The poor have been urbanizing even more rapidly than the population as a whole. By fostering economic growth, urbanization helped reduce absolute poverty in the aggregate. There are marked regional differences: Latin America has the most urbanized poverty problem, East Asia has the least; there has been a "ruralization" of poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; in marked contrast to other regions, Africa's urbanization process has not been associated with falling overall poverty. [source] Biological Conservation and Global PovertyBIOTROPICA, Issue 2 2008Marcelino Fuentes No abstract is available for this article. [source] Images of poverty and attributions for poverty: does higher education moderate the linkage?,INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NONPROFIT & VOLUNTARY SECTOR MARKETING, Issue 2 2009Ishbel McWha ,Development Education' is a topical phrase describing campaigns to raise public awareness about global poverty, but how do such processes interact with more formal learning experiences, for example in Higher Education? One hundred and seventy-one final-semester Business versus Social Science University students experienced a conventionally ,cropped' (child's face only) versus ,full' (face-plus-context) campaign-like image of a child in poverty. They also completed the attribution-focused ,Causes of Third-World Poverty Questionnaire' (CTWPQ). Business students tended to disagree less than social science students with blaming-the-poor for poverty. More importantly, a cropped image condition resulted in significantly elevated blame-the-poor scores among business students, but not those in social science. Interactions like this suggest that campaign images can be psychologically tailored to differently educated market segments. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] ASSESSING GLOBAL POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: INCOME, RESOURCES, AND CAPABILITIESMETAPHILOSOPHY, Issue 1-2 2005Ingrid Robeyns Abstract: Are global poverty and inequality on the rise or are they declining? And is the quality of life of the world's poorest people getting worse or better? These questions are often given conflicting answers by economists, the World Bank, and social activists. One reason for this is that assessments of quality of life can be made in terms of people's income, their resources, or their functionings and capabilities. This essay discusses the pros and cons of these evaluative approaches, and it argues that all approaches have complementary strengths and should therefore in principle all be considered. Moreover, being aware that assessments of poverty and inequality can be made using these different frameworks helps us to understand the conflicting claims. [source] Sustainability marketing for the poorest of the poorBUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, Issue 3 2006Manfred Kirchgeorg Abstract Recent work is reconceptualizing global poverty as an attractive growth opportunity for firms, that can simultaneously alleviate the problem of poverty. This notion has major implications for the sustainability of global society in general, and for the concepts and practice of marketing in particular. It is the purpose of this paper to explore, and bring attention to, these important implications, and to offer conceptual and practical suggestions for a sustainability marketing for the poor. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [source] | ||||||||||