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This book investigates and documents multidimensional poverty in
the United States and identifies patterns and relationships that
contribute to the development of a more complete understanding of
the incidence and intensity of deprivation. The first part
introduces multidimensional poverty and provides a rationale for
viewing poverty through a lens of multiple deprivations. It
discusses how the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) compares to
more narrowly-focused, income-based poverty measures and emphasizes
its usefulness and applicability for the formulation of related,
welfare-enhancing public policies. The second part documents
multidimensional poverty incidence, intensity, and corresponding
MPI values at the aggregate level of detail, for various
demographic cohorts, and across geographic locales. The book then
presents results from an empirical analysis that identifies the
determinants of multidimensional poverty incidence and of
individual deprivation scores. The third part consists of three
studies of multidimensional poverty, examining the effect of the
Affordable Care Act on multidimensional poverty incidence and
intensity, variation in multidimensional poverty across native- and
foreign-born residents (and across immigrants' home countries) of
the US, and variation in the respective indicators that contribute
to multidimensional poverty across the life cycle. The book closes
with two chapters. The first relays the findings of counterfactual
exercises where certain deprivations are assumed to have been
eliminated. The final chapter summarizes the work, draws inferences
and arrives at conclusions, and discusses the corresponding public
policy implications.
In 1989, Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term "intersectionality" to
describe the interdependent and overlapping systems of
discrimination and disadvantage that result from the interconnected
nature of social categorizations. These categories include, but are
not limited to, disability, gender identity, nationality, race, and
socioeconomic class. In recent years, we have witnessed increased
societal interest in the notion of equal economic, political, and
social rights. This has commonly manifested in a desire for
equality of opportunity (i.e., social justice). This book applies
an intersectional approach to examine a specific facet of equality
- namely, the presence and magnitude of wage discrimination in the
U.S. labor market. This book accomplishes several objectives. It
introduces intersectional analysis for readers who are unfamiliar
with the topic. The book identifies intersectional wage
discrimination for a large number of worker groups that are defined
by multiple intersecting identities (i.e., the personal
characteristics of Hispanic ethnicity, nativity, race, and sex). It
also documents variation in wage differentials both between worker
groups (i.e., contemporaneously) and within groups (i.e.,
intertemporally). Finally, given the policy relevance of our topic,
it is fitting that the final chapter is devoted to corresponding
conclusions.
This edited collection provides a comprehensive examination of
multidimensional poverty for a wide variety of economies and
societies, with a general focus on multidimensional poverty in
developed countries, where poverty is often overlooked. Arguing
that income- and consumption-based poverty measures cannot provide
a full picture of the presence and extent of poverty, the
contributors suggest new ways to structure assessment indexes.
Complementing the discussion of new rubrics, a series of
single-country and comparative examples from Europe and the United
States examine variation in multidimensional poverty incidence and
the extent of deprivation. This combination of methodology and
application will appeal to academics, researchers, and policymakers
alike.
The author examines the relationships between immigration policy,
observed immigration patterns, and cultural differences between the
United States and immigrants? source countries. The entirety of
U.S. immigration history (1607-present) is reviewed through a
recounting of related legislative acts and by examining data on
immigrant inflows and cross-societal cultural distances. Prior to
the Immigration Act of 1965, U.S. policy favored immigration from
Europe, particularly Northern and Western Europe. Thus, American
culture became similar to the cultures of European societies and of
Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Changes in U.S. immigration
policy during the past half century have resulted in American
culture becoming more similar to the cultures of more recent
arrivals? source countries (i.e., societies in Asia, Latin America,
the Caribbean, and Africa). Tests for structural breaks in the
immigrant inflow series and descriptive analysis of the cultural
differences between the U.S. and several cohorts of countries
reveal fascinating details about this transformation. Population
projections for the years 2015-2065 suggest continued cultural
change. Corresponding policy implications are discussed. This book
is a key resource for faculty, researchers and students along with
policymakers, non-academics interested in immigration policy and
its history, and readers interested in migration studies, global
studies, and cultural studies.
This unique book synthesizes and extends the immigrant-trade
literature and provides comprehensive coverage of this timely and
important topic. In that vein, the author contributes to the
understanding of the relationship between immigration and trade and
sheds light on a noteworthy aspect of globalization that both
confronts policymakers with challenges and offers the potential to
overcome them. Roger White documents the pro-trade influences that
immigrants have on US imports from, and exports to, their
respective home countries. Variations in the immigrant-trade link
are addressed, as are the underlying factors that may determine the
existence and operability of that link. The findings have direct
implications for US immigration policy, suggesting that too few
immigrants are currently admitted to the country and that a more
liberal immigration policy may enhance social welfare. This book
contains valuable economic analyses for undergraduates,
postgraduates, researchers, educated laypersons and practitioners
who are interested in public policy, international trade and
economics, migration studies, international relations and
globalization.
Economic globalization is the process of increased integration
among nations, characterized and fostered by three elements of
international trade- goods and services, international capital
flows, and international migration. In recent decades,
international economic integration has increased both in depth
(more pronounced bilateral connections) and in breadth (connections
have become more commonplace), thus, the global economy has become
increasingly integrated. Societies receive tremendous net benefits
from economic globalization, however, accessing these benefits may
be limited by cross-societal cultural differences. This book
examines cultural differences as a potential impediment to economic
integration. Relying on rigorous statistical and econometric
techniques, the analyses indicate that higher transaction costs,
due to greater cultural distance, inhibit both the volume of trade
flows and the successful completion of trade deals. Cultural
distance appears to reduce foreign direct investment, as well as
divert investment to less culturally-distant destinations. This
book finds a negative relationship between migration flows and
cultural distance. It considers the common criticism that repeated
and intensified integration diminishes cultural differences,
resulting in cultural homogeneity. This book offers the first
comprehensive examination of the relationships between
cross-societal cultural differences and economic globalization. It
will be of great interest to scholars and students who study
globalization, international economics, and cultural studies.
This book investigates and documents multidimensional poverty in
the United States and identifies patterns and relationships that
contribute to the development of a more complete understanding of
the incidence and intensity of deprivation. The first part
introduces multidimensional poverty and provides a rationale for
viewing poverty through a lens of multiple deprivations. It
discusses how the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) compares to
more narrowly-focused, income-based poverty measures and emphasizes
its usefulness and applicability for the formulation of related,
welfare-enhancing public policies. The second part documents
multidimensional poverty incidence, intensity, and corresponding
MPI values at the aggregate level of detail, for various
demographic cohorts, and across geographic locales. The book then
presents results from an empirical analysis that identifies the
determinants of multidimensional poverty incidence and of
individual deprivation scores. The third part consists of three
studies of multidimensional poverty, examining the effect of the
Affordable Care Act on multidimensional poverty incidence and
intensity, variation in multidimensional poverty across native- and
foreign-born residents (and across immigrants' home countries) of
the US, and variation in the respective indicators that contribute
to multidimensional poverty across the life cycle. The book closes
with two chapters. The first relays the findings of counterfactual
exercises where certain deprivations are assumed to have been
eliminated. The final chapter summarizes the work, draws inferences
and arrives at conclusions, and discusses the corresponding public
policy implications.
This essential volume examines the influence of immigrants on the
process of international economic integration - specifically, their
influences on bilateral and multilateral trade flows. It extends
beyond the identification and explanation of the immigrant-trade
link and offers a more expansive treatment of the subject matter,
making it the most comprehensive volume of its kind. The authors
present abundant evidence that confirms the positive influences of
immigrants on trade between their home and host countries; however
the immigrant-trade link may not be universal. The operability of
the link is found to depend on a variety of factors related to
immigrants' home countries, their host countries, the types of
goods and services being traded and the anthropogenic
characteristics of the immigrants themselves. Applying the
augmented gravity model to data on trade and migration,
International Migration and Economic Integration provides answers
to the following questions: - Do immigrants exert positive
influences on trade between their respective host and home
countries? Are the effects of immigrants on trade homogenous across
different immigrant entry classifications? Do the influences of
immigrants on trade in goods extend to trade in services? Are these
influences homogenous across product types and industry/sector
classifications? - Do differences in relative levels of economic
and/or social development for immigrants' host and/or home
countries affect the existence or the magnitude of the
immigrant-trade link? Have immigration policies and changes in such
policies influenced the immigrant-trade relationship? - Do cultural
differences between immigrants' home and host countries inhibit
trade flows and, if so, to what extent do the pro-trade influences
of immigrants counter the trade-inhibiting effects of cultural
distance? - Is there variation in the pro-trade influences of
immigrants across migration corridors? Is the influence of
immigrants on trade conditional on the volume of trade taking place
between their host and home countries? Are the effects of
immigrants (emigrants) on trade universal? What factors/conditions
correlate with the existence and operability of the immigrant-trade
relationship? Though ideally suited to advanced undergraduate and
graduate students in international trade, international economics,
public policy, sociology and international relations and their
professors, this engaging work will also be relevant for anyone
outside of academia who is interested in public policy,
immigration, or international relations.
Explores the origins and evolution of Georgian landscape
architecture, a period of innovative and diverse garden structures
in which some of the era's greatest architects experimented with
different forms, styles, and new technology The invention and
evolution of the Georgian landscape garden liberated garden
buildings from the corset of formality, allowing them to structure
much more extensive areas of garden and park. One of the leading
authorities on Georgian landscape architecture, Roger White
explores a genre in which some of the era's greatest architects
experimented with different forms, styles, and new technology.
Covering not just the obvious adornments of parks and gardens such
as temples, summerhouses, grottoes, towers and "follies," the book
also explores structures with predominantly practical functions
including mausolea, boathouses, dovecotes, stables, kennels, deer
pens, barns, and cowsheds, all of which could be dressed up to make
an architectural impact. White examines these structures not only
architecturally but from a functional and cultural viewpoint,
considering questions of stylistic origins and development.
Focussing on the contributions of Britain's leading
eighteenth-century architects-Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor, Gibbs, Kent,
Adam, Chambers, Wyatt, and Soane-Georgian Arcadia provides a richly
illustrated account of a period of innovative and diverse garden
building.
This book examines survey data to consider the extent to which
public support for immigration, international trade, and foreign
direct investment exists in a cohort of 38 heterogeneous countries.
With economic globalization shaping daily life, understanding the
determinants of public opinion is crucial for policy makers. This
timely volume uses survey data from the Pew Research Center's
2006-2014 Global Attitudes Project (GAP) in conjunction with data
from several secondary sources. White identifies the factors that
underlie the reluctance of some members of the public, and some
societies, to view these topics in a more positive light.
Specifically, he considers the roles of culture, cultural
differences ("cultural distance"), and relative social and economic
development as determinants of public opinion and corresponding
cross-societal differences of opinion.
Economic globalization is the process of increased integration
among nations, characterized and fostered by three elements of
international trade- goods and services, international capital
flows, and international migration. In recent decades,
international economic integration has increased both in depth
(more pronounced bilateral connections) and in breadth (connections
have become more commonplace), thus, the global economy has become
increasingly integrated. Societies receive tremendous net benefits
from economic globalization, however, accessing these benefits may
be limited by cross-societal cultural differences. This book
examines cultural differences as a potential impediment to economic
integration. Relying on rigorous statistical and econometric
techniques, the analyses indicate that higher transaction costs,
due to greater cultural distance, inhibit both the volume of trade
flows and the successful completion of trade deals. Cultural
distance appears to reduce foreign direct investment, as well as
divert investment to less culturally-distant destinations. This
book finds a negative relationship between migration flows and
cultural distance. It considers the common criticism that repeated
and intensified integration diminishes cultural differences,
resulting in cultural homogeneity. This book offers the first
comprehensive examination of the relationships between
cross-societal cultural differences and economic globalization. It
will be of great interest to scholars and students who study
globalization, international economics, and cultural studies.
Whatever the indifference or brutality of the world, love still
thrives. September 1942: Following the collapse of the Allied
resistance in Burma, the full might of the Imperial Japanese
Airforce has been unleashed on the cities of Chengdu and Chongqing,
in an attempt to force the Chinese government to sue for peace. The
brave actions of a squadron of Chinese pilots in their battered
planes offer a glimmer of hope in these darkest of hours. May 2019:
29 year-old Torin Cameron from London meets 26 year-old Lu Chen Xi
(Sunny) at a business conference in Chengdu. Reluctant at first,
she becomes his guide on a journey of discovery, that takes them
deep into the Sichuan countryside and opens Torin's eyes to China's
heroic role in the second world war-and a family secret that has
remained concealed for seventy-five years. Unravelling the threads
between wartime China and Europe and modern-day Chengdu and London,
Degrees of Separation explores the yin and yang of tangled human
experience, the twists of fate and tendrils of connection that wind
through generations and across cultures. An uplifting and
inspirational story of love and reconciliation.
For thirty years, the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society has met weekly in
the medieval colleges of the University of Oxford. During that
time, it has hosted as speakers nearly all those still living who
were associated with the Inklings-the Oxford literary circle led by
C.S. Lewis-, as well as authors and thinkers of a prominence that
nears Lewis's own. C.S. Lewis and His Circle offers the reader a
chance to join this unique group. Roger White has worked with
Society past-presidents Brendan and Judith Wolfe to select the best
unpublished talks, which are here made available to the public for
the first time. They exemplify the best of traditional academic
essays, thoughtful memoirs, and informal reminiscences about C.S.
Lewis and his circle. The reader will re-imagine Lewis's Cosmic
Trilogy with former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams; read
philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe's final word on Lewis's arguments
for Christianity; hear the Reverend Peter Bide's memories of
marrying Lewis and Joy Davidman in an Oxford hospital; and learn
about Lewis's Narnia Chronicles from his former secretary.
Representing the finest of both personal and scholarly engagement
with C.S. Lewis and the Inklings, the talks collected here set a
new tone for engagement with this iconic Oxford literary circle-a
tone close to Lewis's own Oxford-bred sharpness and wryness,
seasoned with good humor and genuine affection for C.S. Lewis and
his circle.
This is the story of the first-year a Bernese Mountain Dog named
Nike shares with his human Dog-Mom. It introduces readers to the
concept of what it means to be a dog-mom. It also tells the story
of Nike's adventure into the unique world of AKC show-dog
competition and all it takes to prepare a dog for showing.
The Nun of Camelot is story of Sister Julie Hyer's twenty-year
tenure as the President and CEO of Dominican Hospital in Santa
Cruz, California. It is told through the eyes of Roger Hite, her
COO and close colleague during the Camelot years at Dominican
Hospital.
An area excavation was undertaken in December 2004-May 2005 within
the western part of the interior and defences of Metchley Roman
fort, Birmingham (central England) in advance of proposals for a
new hospital development. This was the largest single excavation of
the fort interior undertaken at Metchley, comprising an area of
approximately 0.4ha, equivalent to approximately 9% of the total
internal area of the Phase 1 and Phase 3 fort. This volume, the
fourth in the reports, concentrates on the researches into the
western fort interior, defences, and post-Roman activity.
The handsome young Brad Winston is one of the most promising high
school athletes ever to emerge from the small town of Marlboro,
Oregon, located an hour north of Florence on the rugged, scenic
coastline. Considered the #1 most sought-after collegiate football
recruit, Brad finally selects the University of Oregon's
scholarship offer. As he undertakes his Oregon university
adventure, Winston connects with another prominent figure living in
his hometown, the famous adventure fiction writer, Blake Slater.
Over the course of his first year at Oregon, Slater becomes the
young athlete's "dutch uncle" friend and confidant. He helps
Winston through a bumpy course of events that threaten his future
as an athlete and the post-graduate dream he has for his own life.
The Marlboro Miracle is a sport's story that transcends the
gridiron excitement and provides readers with a heart-warming,
feel-good story about an extraordinary young man everybody would
like to adopt as their own son.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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