Giving Credit where Due: A Path to Global Poverty ReductionUniversity Press of America, 2006 - 209 стор. According to the World Bank, approximately one billion people live on less than $1 a day. Giving Credit Where Due: A Path to Global Poverty Reduction critically examines the level and quality of the international community's response to such extreme poverty. This timely work traces the ethical and religious underpinnings of social welfare policy; describes income support systems in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere; and proposes a new strategy for reducing global poverty. Under this approach, developing countries would establish a refundable tax credit to put a floor under the incomes of their people who live on less than $1 a day. A global tax credit fund would be created by the United Nations and financed with contributions from rich nations and private donors. The fund would enable the UN to share in the costs with countries that adopt the tax credit approach. In an even-handed manner, Giving Credit Where Due addresses the inevitable objections to the approach, such as badly administered, even corrupt, revenue systems in many developing countries. It offers constructive ideas for making the refundable tax credit a reality in a changing global environment. This work will be of interest to aid agencies, such as the United Nations and the World Bank; social welfare policy analysts, economists, legislators, and journalists; and as a supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate courses. |
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... effects of the experi- ments in several areas were positive . Relative to controls , in the treatment group , school ... effect ) ; however , a program providing financial alternatives to marriage for low - income women could also ...
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... effects , namely , increased labor force participation rates among low - income individuals but reductions in hours worked per low - income participant . Arguably the former effect is more important than the latter . The Earned Income ...
... effects , namely , increased labor force participation rates among low - income individuals but reductions in hours worked per low - income participant . Arguably the former effect is more important than the latter . The Earned Income ...
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... effect on the income guar- antees and tax rates " in a haphazard way . " The time limit of the experiment was too short to estimate the effects of a permanent program . And the differences by racial and ethnic minority ( reduced work ...
... effect on the income guar- antees and tax rates " in a haphazard way . " The time limit of the experiment was too short to estimate the effects of a permanent program . And the differences by racial and ethnic minority ( reduced work ...
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Giving Credit where Due: A Path to Global Poverty Reduction Robert Francis Clark Перегляд фрагмента - 2006 |
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