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The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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Poverty is a pressing and persistent problem. While its extent
varies across countries, its presence always represents the
diminution of human capacity. Therefore, it seems natural to want
to do something about it. Have countries made progress in
mitigating poverty? How do we determine who is poor and who is not
poor? What intuitions or theories guide the design of anti-poverty
policy? Is overall labor market performance the key to keeping the
poverty rate low? Or, does it matter how well-connected an
individual is to those who know about the availability of jobs?
Does being an immigrant increase the odds of being poor? Are there
anti-poverty policies that work? For whom do they work? If I'm
poor, will I have access to health care and housing? Am I more
likely to be obese, polluted upon, incarcerated, un-banked, and
without assets if I'm poor? Is poverty too hard a problem for
economic analysis? These are some of the questions that a
distinguished group of scholars have come together to confront in
this Handbook.
The Handbook is written in a highly-accessible style that
encourages the reader to think critically about poverty. Theories
are presented in a rigorous but not overly-technical way; concise
and straightforward empirical analyses enlighten key policy issues.
The volume has six parts: Poverty in the 21st Century; Labor Market
Factors; Poverty Policy; Poverty Dynamics; Dimensions of Poverty;
and Trends and Issues in Anti-Poverty Policy. A goal of the
Handbook is to stimulate further research on poverty. To that end,
several chapters challenge conventional thinking about poverty and
in some cases present specific proposals for the reform of economic
and social policy.
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