Lectures on Inequality, Poverty and Welfare
Lectures on Inequality, Poverty and Welfare

Author: Antonio Villar

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-24

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 3319455621

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These lectures aim to help readers understand the logics and nature of the main indicators of inequality and poverty, with special attention to their social welfare underpinnings. The key approach consists in linking inequality and poverty measurement with welfare evaluation. As concern for inequality and poverty stems from ethical considerations, the measurement of those aspects necessarily involves some value judgments. Those value judgments can be linked, directly or indirectly, to welfare assessments on the distribution of personal and social opportunities. Inequality and poverty are thus considered to be partial aspects of the welfare evaluation of the opportunities in a given society. The volume includes two applications that illustrate how the models can be implemented. They refer to inequality of opportunity and poverty in education, using PISA data.

Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran
Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran

Author: Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-19

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1349950254

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This book examines economic inequality and social disparity in Iran, together with their drivers, over the past four decades. During this period, income distribution and economic welfare were affected by the 1979 Revolution, the eight-year war with Iraq, post-war privatization and economic liberalization initiatives carried out under the Rafsanjani and Khatami administrations, the ascendance of a populist economic platform under the Ahmadinejad administration, and the lifting of energy and financial sanctions under the Rouhani administration. Featuring a mix of scholars, including Iranian academics who experienced these changes and are publishing in English for the first time, this collection offers quantitative and descriptive studies of the country's post-revolutionary economic development and disparities. In most chapters, a hypothesis is developed from existing theories or observations, which is then tested using available data. This unique combination of new voices, academic as well as personal experiences, and scientific methods will be a valuable addition to the library of the scholars of modern Iran’s economy and society.

Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality
Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality

Author: Joel F. Handler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-27

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1139461168

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With the passage of the 1996 welfare reform, not only welfare, but poverty and inequality have disappeared from the political discourse. The decline in the welfare rolls has been hailed as a success. This book challenges that assumption. It argues that while many single mothers left welfare, they have joined the working poor, and fail to make a decent living. The book examines the persistent demonization of poor single-mother families; the impact of the low-wage market on perpetuating poverty and inequality; and the role of the welfare bureaucracy in defining deserving and undeserving poor. It argues that the emphasis on family values - marriage promotion, sex education and abstinence - is misguided and diverts attention from the economic hardships low-income families face. The book proposes an alternative approach to reducing poverty and inequality that centers on a children's allowance as basic income support coupled with jobs and universal child care.

Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe
Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe

Author: Mary Daly

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-02-28

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1788111265

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Gender equality has been one of the defining projects of European welfarestates. It has proven an elusive goal, not just because of political opposition but also due to a lack of clarity in how to best frame equality and take account of family-related considerations. This wide-ranging book assembles the most pertinent literature and evidence to provide a critical understanding of how contemporary state policies engage with gender inequalities.

Welfare, Inequality and Social Citizenship
Welfare, Inequality and Social Citizenship

Author: Daniel Edmiston

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2020-02-12

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 144735558X

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Exploring the lived realities of both poverty and prosperity in the UK, this book examines the material and symbolic significance of welfare austerity and its implications for social citizenship and inequality. The book offers a rare and vivid insight into the everyday lives, attitudes and behaviours of the rich as well as the poor, demonstrating how those marginalised and validated by the existing welfare system make sense of the prevailing socio-political settlement and their own position within it. Through the testimonies of both affluent and deprived citizens, the book problematises dominant policy thinking surrounding the functions and limits of welfare, examining the civic attitudes and engagements of the rich and the poor, to demonstrate how welfare austerity and rising structural inequalities secure and maintain institutional legitimacy. The book offers a timely contribution to academic and policy debates pertaining to citizenship, welfare reform and inequality.

Risk Inequality and Welfare States
Risk Inequality and Welfare States

Author: Philipp Rehm

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-05-31

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1107108160

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Focusing on the distribution of risk within societies, this book presents a parsimonious theory of social policy emergence, divergence, and change. It is suitable for advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in political economy, social policy, labor market politics, political behavior, political psychology, sociology, and class stratification.

The Welfare State Revisited
The Welfare State Revisited

Author: José Antonio Ocampo

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2018-03-27

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0231546165

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The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the case for a redesigned twenty-first-century welfare state. The Welfare State Revisited takes on major debates about social well-being, considering the merits of universal versus targeted policies; responses to market failures; integrating welfare and economic development; and how welfare states around the world have changed since the neoliberal turn. Contributors offer prescriptions for how to respond to the demands generated by demographic changes, the changing role of the family, new features of labor markets, the challenges of aging societies, and technological change. They consider how strengthening or weakening social protection programs affects inequality, suggesting ways to facilitate the spread of effective welfare states throughout the world, especially in developing countries. Presenting new insights into the functions the welfare state can fulfill and how to design a more efficient and more equitable system, The Welfare State Revisited is essential reading on the most discussed issues in social welfare today.

European Welfare Production
European Welfare Production

Author: Joachim Vogel

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2003-10-31

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781402011498

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The aim of this book is to identify the variation in welfare regimes and the corresponding welfare outcome at the micro level. The research agenda of this report sets out from the tradition of the ‘social indicator movement’, and recent regime research. This volume is of interest to researchers in quality of life research, economists and political scientists interested in welfare regimes and comparative social welfare research, and administrators in social planning and social work.

Inequality in the Developing World
Inequality in the Developing World

Author: Carlos Gradín

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0198863969

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Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense public and academic debates and has become a dominant policy concern within many countries and in all multilateral agencies. It is at the core of the 17 goals of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This book contributes to this important discussion by presenting assessments of the measurement and analysis of global inequality by leading inequality scholars, aligning these to comprehensive reviews of inequality trends in five of the world's largest developing countries - Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa.

Multidimensional Inequalities
Multidimensional Inequalities

Author: Bent Greve

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-10-25

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 311071437X

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Multidimensional Inequalities is a deep dive into the historical contexts and contemporary realities that negatively influence society and its structures. It is often overlooked that inequality is not just about income and wealth but rather a broad spectrum of intersecting factors. This book focuses on each aspect individually, analysing its effect on welfare systems, and informs about the instruments available to reduce inequality.