Spreading the Wealth Around: Reflections Inspired by Joe the Plumber. N. Gregory Mankiw, March 2010, Paper. "This essay discusses the…
The Global Gender Gap Report 2010. Ricardo Hausmann, 2010, Paper. "Nordic countries Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden continue to…
“Vimbai is the best hairdresser in Mrs. Khumalo’s salon, and she is secure in her status until the handsome, smooth-talking Dumisani shows…
A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers respond to the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay…
Scholars, including urban poverty researchers, have not seriously debated the important issues that Loïc Wacquant raised in his…
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…
Framing Race and Poverty. William Julius Wilson, November 1, 2009, Opinion. "One thing I know is that it’s extremely important to discuss…
This book is a dialogue about poverty in North America, especially in Mexico and the United States. Poverty has different roots and…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…