This work proposes an analysis of the novel Famintos (The famished), by the Cape Verde an author Luis Romano, written in the 1940s but first published in the 1960s, in Rio de Janeiro. We emphasize ...the representation, made by the writer, of the mechanisms of exploitation of men by men and of the way how the poverty of someone is almost always the profit of others. Furthermore, we discourse about the ways how the island space may take, in that colonial fascist context, the forms of a prison: to do so, we seek support, mainly, in the definitions of "insularidade" (which can be translated as "insularity", but not necessarily meaning a bad thing) proposed by Dina Salustio and Manuel Veiga, compared to the representation of the drought and the poverty drawn by Romano. We conclude that the documentary and political features of the book goes through the notions that starvation ends up killing any fraternity that can exist between a group of fellow citizens, and that the literary text is also a way to break the silence imposed on the Cape Verde an intellectuals by the Portuguese, the native bourgeoisie and the geography of the archipelago. Keywords: Luis Romano; Famintos (The famished); Insularity. O presente trabalho esboca uma analise do romance Famintos, do escritor cabo-verdiano Luis Romano, escrito nos anos 1940 e publicado pela primeira vez na decada de 1960, no Rio de Janeiro. Nossa enfase recai sobre o retrato, feito pelo autor, dos mecanismos de exploracao do homem pelo homem e da forma como a miseria de alguns e quase sempre o lucro de outros. Outrossim, discorremos sobre as maneiras como o espaco insular pode tomar, naquele contexto colonial fascista, as formas de uma prisao: para tanto, buscamos suporte, principalmente, nas concepcoes de insularidade propostas por Dina Salustio e Manuel Veiga, cotejadas ao retrato da seca e da miseria tracado por Romano. Concluise que o carater documental e politico da obra passa pelas nocoes de que a fome acaba por matar qualquer fraternidade que haja entre um grupo de concidadaos, e de que o texto literario tambem e um caminho para romper o silencio imposto ao intelectual de Cabo Verde pela Metropole, pela elite nativa e pela propria geografia do arquipelago. Palavras-chave: Luis Romano; Famintos; Insularidade.
This work proposes an analysis of the novel Famintos (The famished), by the Cape Verde an author Luis Romano, written in the 1940s but first published in the 1960s, in Rio de Janeiro. We emphasize ...the representation, made by the writer, of the mechanisms of exploitation of men by men and of the way how the poverty of someone is almost always the profit of others. Furthermore, we discourse about the ways how the island space may take, in that colonial fascist context, the forms of a prison: to do so, we seek support, mainly, in the definitions of "insularidade" (which can be translated as "insularity", but not necessarily meaning a bad thing) proposed by Dina Salustio and Manuel Veiga, compared to the representation of the drought and the poverty drawn by Romano. We conclude that the documentary and political features of the book goes through the notions that starvation ends up killing any fraternity that can exist between a group of fellow citizens, and that the literary text is also a way to break the silence imposed on the Cape Verde an intellectuals by the Portuguese, the native bourgeoisie and the geography of the archipelago.
Guilty of indigence Chen, Janet Y
2012., 20120124, 2012, 2012-01-24, 20120101
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In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. ...Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." Interweaving analysis of shifting social viewpoints, the evolution of poor relief institutions, and the lived experiences of the urban poor, Janet Chen explores the development of Chinese attitudes toward urban poverty and of policies intended for its alleviation.
Over the past 40 years, China has made significant progress towards its poverty alleviation goals. The rural population under the current poverty line has decreased by 739.9 million. China has ...contributed to more than 70 per cent of world poverty reduction. To better promote the new anti‐poverty strategy and to serve as a reference for poverty alleviation in other developing countries, this paper summarises the main experiences of China’s poverty alleviation over the past 40 years and then discusses the challenges associated with implementing the targeted poverty alleviation policy in the new era. China’s experience with poverty alleviation includes development‐oriented poverty alleviation, improving self‐development capabilities of the poor population, encouraging multiple subjects to participate in poverty alleviation and focusing on innovation and ways to improve poverty alleviation. Although China’s poverty alleviation initiatives have achieved significant successes, there are still several challenges that should be of concern in the coming years, such as the diminishing marginal effect of financial inputs on poverty alleviation, the resulting negative incentives for the poor to improve their internal motivations and the insufficient participation of markets and social forces in poverty alleviation. Given these challenges, this paper provides suggestions for anti‐poverty policies beyond 2020.
Data from China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs show that more than 75% of the country’s poor live in rural areas. Therefore, to achieve the goal of poverty alleviation by 2020, the problem of rural ...poverty requires urgent attention. Based on the entropy method, we herein assess the level of poverty vulnerability in each province in China to guide the direction of future poverty alleviation efforts. In addition, based on the logarithmic mean Divisia index method and the grey relational analysis method, we studied the effects and contributions of rural poverty incidence, rural agricultural outcomes per capita, the proportion of agricultural outcomes, gross domestic product per capita, and total population on rural poverty. We found that, when it comes to natural resources, human resources, physical assets, financial assets, and social resources, the most vulnerable areas are concentrated in western China. We suggest the government pay close attention to the interests of individuals in this region to balance economic development, distribute the benefits of economic development to the rural poor, and narrow the income gap between urban and rural areas.
The Escape from Poverty De Schutter, Olivier; Frazer, Hugh; Guio, Anne-Catherine ...
10/2023
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The perpetuation of poverty across generations damages lives. It weakens social cohesion and the economy and undermines environmental ...sustainability. This book examines why poverty is carried on from one generation to the next and what needs to be done to eradicate it.
This book draws on a wide variety of sources and academic disciplines (social sciences, economics, law, community development, neuroscience and developmental psychology) along with the lived experience of people in poverty. Challenging the myths and prejudices about poverty that hinder progress, it calls for a comprehensive approach based on ensuring real equality of opportunity for all. It stresses the need to intervene early to combat child poverty and break the vicious cycles that perpetuate poverty and disadvantage.
Poverty is no longer a problem of income alone. Healthy poverty and capacity poverty have become key factors affecting the poverty reduction effectiveness. Based on “double cut-offs” multidimensional ...poverty identification method of Alkire and Foster (J Public Econ 95(7–8): 476–487, 2011), this paper proposes a “triple cut-offs” identification method of multidimensional poverty reduction effectiveness, and construct the chronic multidimensional poverty reduction index combined with chronic thinking of Foster (in: Addison T, Hulme D, Kanbur R (eds) Poverty dynamics: interdisciplinary perspectives. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 59–76, 2009). And this index can comprehensively and systematically measure the China’s multidimensional poverty reduction effectiveness in terms of both poverty alleviation and poverty returning. In this paper, we find that China's chronic multidimensional poverty alleviation index is greater than the country’s chronic poverty returning index, and the chronic multidimensional poverty alleviation/returning index in rural and western regions is greater than that in its cities and other regions in China. The chronic poverty alleviation of per capita net income and medical insurance have contributed a lot to the overall chronic multidimensional poverty alleviation of China’s rural residents, while poverty returning caused by health and housing difficulties has contributed a lot (48.14%) to the chronic multidimensional poverty alleviation of the country’s urban residents. These findings can provide more targeted guidance for poverty governance.
This book focuses on the World
Bank's experience with Participatory Poverty
Assessments (PPAs). Some practitioners have argued that a
number of World Bank PPAs should not be included because
they ...were extractive, did not influence policy, and were not
participatory. However, both good and bad practice PPAs is
included in this analysis to facilitate learning from past
experiences. Participatory poverty assessments are showing
the World Bank and other outside observers of poverty that
are not the only poverty experts. Poor people have a long
overlooked capacity to contribute to the analysis of
poverty-and without their insights to know only part of the
reality of poverty, its causes, and the survival strategies
of the poor. The objective of a comprehensive poverty
analysis, therefore, should be to conduct participatory
research and household surveys interactively, so that they
enhance each other. If a PPA is conducted after the
household survey, the results will explain, challenge,
reinforce, or shed new light on household survey data. The
results of the household survey can also, of course,
explain, challenge, or reinforce the PPA. If the PPA is
conducted before the household survey, the PPA results could
assist in generating hypotheses, shaping the design of the
household survey, and developing survey questions
appropriate for the respondents. Ideally, this should be an
ongoing process whereby both PPAs and household surveys are
conducted periodically and feed into each other. The results
of past PPAs indicate that when they are used in conjunction
with household surveys, the final assessment is a much
fuller analysis of the varying dimensions of poverty, and
the policy recommendations are more relevant and informed.
Kot smo poročali že v preteklem letu, so predvsem zaradi vse večjega družbenega pomena geodezije in geoinformatike na konferenci Svetovne banke Land and Poverty v Washingtonu leta 2018 na pobudo ...mednarodne zveze geodetov FIG (fran. National Society of Professional Surveyors) razglasili svetovni dan geodetov, ki ga zaznamujemo 21. marca. Letošnjo letno konferenco Svetovne banke Land and Poverty v Washingtonu, v okviru katere naj bi potekala tudi osrednja slovesnost ob svetovnem dnevu geodetov, je močno zaznamovala pandemija koronavirusa.
