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[5] [6] While positive overall, Eyal Press negatively compared Poverty, by America to Desmond's earlier book Evicted, criticizing Poverty, by America for being drier and containing little original research. [7] The Washington Post's Timothy Noah wrote positively about the book, describing it as "a darker view" than other books about poverty. [8]
The first is a failure of the job market to provide a proper number of jobs which pay enough to keep families out of poverty. Even if unemployment is low, the labor market may be saturated with low-paying, part-time work that lacks benefits (thus limiting the number of full-time, good paying jobs).
When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor... and Yourself is a 2009 non-fiction book by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert. The book was first published on June 24, 2009, through Moody Publishers and explores and dissects common perceptions on poverty and the means to relieve it, from a Christian perspective. [1]
In Sub-Saharan Africa extreme poverty went up from 41% in 1981 to 46% in 2001, [92] which combined with growing population increased the number of people living in extreme poverty from 231 million to 318 million. [93] Statistics of 2018 shows population living in extreme conditions has declined by more than 1 billion in the last 25 years.
World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms is a 2002 book by Thomas Pogge.In the book, Pogge explains that the poorest 44% of humankind have 1.3% of global income and their purchasing power per person per day is less than that of $2.15 in the US in 1993; 826 million of them do not have enough to eat. [1]
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011) is a non-fiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee [1] and Esther Duflo, [2] both professors of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureates.
The culture of poverty emerges as a key concept in Michael Harrington's discussion of American poverty in The Other America. [6] For Harrington, the culture of poverty is a structural concept defined by social institutions of exclusion that create and perpetuate the cycle of poverty in America.
This concept may include other adverse effects of welfare such as on the family structure: it may encourage the increase in the numbers of single-mother families and divorce rates, as individuals see a distinct benefit in such a lifestyle. [6] In the UK, there is a distinction between two concepts within the welfare trap: [citation needed]