In this tribute to the 2007 recipient of the winner of the Jeffrey Z. Rubin Theory-To-Practice Award from the International Association for…
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A small but growing number of cities are adopting more inclusive approaches to informal workers and this offers important lessons for…
Venezuela has seen an unprecedented exodus of people in recent months. In response to a dramatic economic downturn in which inflation is…
This chapter describes a new type of poverty in nation's metropolises: poor, segregated neighborhoods in which a majority of adults are…
Most Americans endorse the ideal of equal opportunity, and many interpret this ideal as requiring that children from different backgrounds…
The American woman suffrage movement remade the U.S. Constitution and effected the broadest expansion of voting eligibility in the nation's…
America’s regional disparities are large and regional convergence has declined if not disappeared. This wildly uneven economic landscape…
We use literacy data available in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 129 survey rounds, across 54 countries, to estimate the…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…