Yue Chim Richard Wong
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9789888390625
- eISBN:
- 9789888390373
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390625.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
There is one very simple and costless way to alleviate poverty in one fell swoop. All one has to do is to transfer full private ownership rights of the public housing units to the occupying tenant ...
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There is one very simple and costless way to alleviate poverty in one fell swoop. All one has to do is to transfer full private ownership rights of the public housing units to the occupying tenant free of charge. . … This would, according to the government study, lift 600,000 households in public rental housing above the poverty line. This would have been the best Christmas gift the Poverty Commission could bestow on the poor people in Hong Kong on the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the Shek Kip Mei Fire.Less
There is one very simple and costless way to alleviate poverty in one fell swoop. All one has to do is to transfer full private ownership rights of the public housing units to the occupying tenant free of charge. . … This would, according to the government study, lift 600,000 households in public rental housing above the poverty line. This would have been the best Christmas gift the Poverty Commission could bestow on the poor people in Hong Kong on the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the Shek Kip Mei Fire.
Romain D. Huret
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780801450488
- eISBN:
- 9781501709531
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450488.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes the role of the Council of Economic Advisers that transformed the science of poverty into a War on Poverty. Robert J. Lampman played a major role in this political decision.
This chapter describes the role of the Council of Economic Advisers that transformed the science of poverty into a War on Poverty. Robert J. Lampman played a major role in this political decision.
Channing Arndt and Kristi Mahrt
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198744801
- eISBN:
- 9780191805967
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744801.003.0004
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter furthers the discussion by outlining how each approach translates from theory to the practical estimation of poverty/wellbeing. It provides an overview of the specific steps involved in ...
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This chapter furthers the discussion by outlining how each approach translates from theory to the practical estimation of poverty/wellbeing. It provides an overview of the specific steps involved in estimation and highlights the analyst’s role in customizing procedures to individual country contexts. The procedures in focus here are implemented via sets of Stata and GAMS code. The code whose default stream is associated with the utility-consistent CBN approach is referred to as the Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe). The procedure for FOD analysis is called executing FOD (EFOD). The PLEASe and EFOD user guides contain more detailed descriptions of the technical aspects of implementation, such as data requirements and particulars of the code.Less
This chapter furthers the discussion by outlining how each approach translates from theory to the practical estimation of poverty/wellbeing. It provides an overview of the specific steps involved in estimation and highlights the analyst’s role in customizing procedures to individual country contexts. The procedures in focus here are implemented via sets of Stata and GAMS code. The code whose default stream is associated with the utility-consistent CBN approach is referred to as the Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe). The procedure for FOD analysis is called executing FOD (EFOD). The PLEASe and EFOD user guides contain more detailed descriptions of the technical aspects of implementation, such as data requirements and particulars of the code.
Romain D. Huret
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780801450488
- eISBN:
- 9781501709531
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450488.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes the invention of the modern poverty paradox – the increase of poor people in spite of economic growth in the 1950s. On this matter, the federal government played a pioneering ...
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This chapter describes the invention of the modern poverty paradox – the increase of poor people in spite of economic growth in the 1950s. On this matter, the federal government played a pioneering role. By then, poor people were invisible, and federal officials gather statistics and ponder over new tools of measurement.Less
This chapter describes the invention of the modern poverty paradox – the increase of poor people in spite of economic growth in the 1950s. On this matter, the federal government played a pioneering role. By then, poor people were invisible, and federal officials gather statistics and ponder over new tools of measurement.
