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Income Growth and Future Poverty Rates of the Aged: This paper estimates effects of future growth in income on the poverty rates of the elderly. If real earnings and other income were to increase steadily at 1 percent per year, poverty among the elderly, 10.5 percent in 1997, would decrease to about 7.2 percent in 2020 and to 4.1...; Tags: Operational accounting, Gale Group, income, poverty, earnings, Social Security; White papers
Muhammad Yunus On How to End Poverty: The third section of Creating a World Without Poverty details Muhammad Yunus' vision for creating social businesses and how they will eliminate poverty. Yunus recaps some of the hoops that had to be jumped through before Grameen Danone could start making high-nutrition, low-cost yogurt in Bangladesh. Capital...; Tags: Taxes, Strategy, Investment, Financial accounting, Michael Fitzgerald, Muhammad Yunus, poverty, vision; Blog posts 2008-01-21
How Muhammad Yunus Created an Impossible Business: Grameen Bank is an improbable business worth study. In the second section of Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus details the ongoing evolution of what he calls "The Grameen Experiment." Yunus was an economist, not a banker, and he needed to invent his bank for the poor,...; Tags: Michael Fitzgerald, Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank; Blog posts 2008-01-12
What Is a "Megaregion"?: What Is a "Megaregion"?Megaregions and PovertyIt is true that a megaregion is concept useful for analyzing future needs, supply and demand, provide ideas for the changing patterns of urbanization and suburban developments. However, many of these megaregions have important clusters of poverty, New York, Los Angeles or Chicago have millions...; Tags: Free trade, megaregion, poverty, Megaregion; Discussion threads 2008-03-25
Is "Nickle and Dimed" a Myth?: Is "Nickle and Dimed" a Myth?Yeah, right.As if everybody he spoke with wouldn't recognize within 2 seconds that he was a prep school boy. Let's see him pull off this trick with rotten teeth from having zero dental care all his life... Or with an education that consisted of...; Tags: Dimed, poverty, nickle; Discussion threads 2008-02-15

Summing up Muhammad Yunus, "Creating a World Without Poverty": I've been reviewing Creating A World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus' visionary book about a new kind of capitalism. I looked at the book in three parts: Muhammad Yunus: Capitalism Is Half-Baked How Muhammad Yunus Created an Impossible Business ...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Michael Fitzgerald, Muhammad Yunus; Blog posts 2008-01-22
Are You Suffering From Time Poverty?: Many people struggle to find the time to do the things they want to. There are only 24 hours in a day and that is never going to change. However, we can change how we look at time and how we use it to help us lead a fuller and...; Tags: Poverty, SelfGrowth.com; White papers 2007-12-01
Economic Development Strategy, Openness and Rural Poverty: This paper argues that both openness and poverty in a country are endogenously determined by the country's long-term economic development strategy. Development strategies can be broadly divided into two mutually exclusive groups: the Comparative Advantage-Defying CAD strategy, which attempts to encourage firms to deviate from the economy's existing comparative advantages...; Tags: poverty, strategy, CAD, industry; White papers 2006-04-01
Poverty Impacts of a WTO Agreement: Synthesis and Overview: This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda DDA. It combines in a novel way the results from several strands of research. Intensive analysis of the DDA Framework Agreement pays particularly close attention to potential reforms...; Tags: World Bank Group, poverty, modeling, analysis, agreement; White papers 2005-10-01
Productivity, Decent Employment And Poverty: Conceptual And Practical Issues Related To Small Enterprises: This paper explores the relationship between labour productivity, employment and poverty. It is organized around a question, a concern and a challenge. The question is: if small enterprises are less productive than large enterprises which they are, why are they not driven from the market through competition, so that the...; Tags: Poverty, Enterprise, Benefits, Human Resources; White papers 2005-03-04
Fuel Poverty Update: This paper highlights new and ongoing initiatives designed to help those in fuel poverty, as well as information on recently published research and events related to fuel poverty. The Fuel Poverty Implementation Plan will outline how Government will meet its fuel poverty targets. This will explore the effect of a...; Tags: poverty; White papers 2004-08-01
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003: This report presents data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2004 Annual Social and Economic Supplement ASEC to the Current Population Survey CPS conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The report concludes with a section discussing income, poverty, and...; Tags: Benefits, Insurance, HEALTHCARE, payroll solutions, Vertical industries, Operational accounting, poverty, health insurance, income, health care, U.S.; White papers 2004-08-01
Building Social Capital Through Micro-Finance: A Perspective on the Growth of Micro-Finance Sector With Special Reference to India: This paper is based on the premise that poverty has its own culture. Social system and subsystems of this culture are built on exploitation. The rich are exploiting the poor by putting them into a debt-trap of money-lending system. This system exists everywhere in the world wherever poverty exists. The...; Tags: poverty, financial; White papers 2004-06-29
Preliminary Design Of A Spatial Decision Support System For Poverty Management: Saddled with the burden of increasing poverty among majority of their populace, many African countries are initiating various Poverty Alleviation Programmes PAP. Many of these programmes however miss out the influence of geography and spatial variables as determinants of poverty, that is, the spatial dimension of the problem of poverty....; Tags: Poverty, Decision Support System, GIS, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Software, Management, Enterprise Software, Data Management; White papers 2004-06-10
Fuel Poverty Monitoring - Indicators: This set of indicators presents the fuel poverty figures for 2002. As outlined in the accompanying Second Annual Progress Report, a change in the way in which English House Condition Survey EHCS data has been collected. Also available is an annex of Case Studies detailing some experiences of Warm Front...; Tags: poverty, monitoring; White papers 2004-04-24
Impact Of Efficiency Gain Under Competitive Pressure On Indian Households: The paper makes an attempt to look into the question how competitive pressure would impact upon the income distribution and poverty of household groups through the change in productivity-efficiency in the economy using an input-output analysis in a general equilibrium framework. Three sources of growth are considered: efficient utilization of...; Tags: Operational accounting, Tilburg University, poverty, income, allocation, analysis; White papers 2004-03-17
Ageing and Poverty in South Africa: This paper on the poverty-ageing nexus in South Africa is presented in response to an invitation to the South African Government to participate in the Regional Workshop on Ageing and Poverty organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA. The paper is structured in accordance with...; Tags: South Africa, nexus, poverty, strategy; White papers 2003-10-29
Integrating Poverty Reduction in IMF-World Bank Models: This paper outlines the Fund-Bank analytical frameworks and presents a critical appraisal indicating the importance of both demand and supply constraints in the countries undertaking Fund adjustment programs, given that these economies are operating much below their capacity output. The paper attempts to provide an integrated model of poverty reduction...; Tags: poverty, adjustment, appraisal, investment, strategy; White papers 2003-09-10
Macroeconomic Performance And Poverty Reduction: This paper investigates the link between macroeconomic performance and the change in the poverty rate among 47 episodes of growth and 52 episodes of economic downturn in developing and transition economies. It shows that, on average, i the greater the inequality, the lower the elasticity of poverty to growth, and...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, International Monetory Fund, elasticity, economic downturn, inflation, income, performance; White papers 2003-04-01
Fuel Poverty Monitoring - Energy Company Schemes: The focus of this paper is to demonstrate the effects these schemes are having on fuel poverty, not just in terms of the number of households helped and the money spent on the schemes, but in terms of measured improvements. These include trying to assess the increase in energy efficiency...; Tags: poverty, energy efficiency, income, monitoring; White papers 2003-02-28