The cundina,'' an unreported rotating credit association, is analyzed as a conceptual framework which creates an alternative to poverty. (NQ)

This article examines the personal savings rates required to provide an average worker with adequate retirement funds. The influence of (1) various definitions of adequacy, (2) inflation, and (3) economic growth on the magnitude of the retirement preparation task are examined. With this perspective, the current roles played by the social security…

A review of three basic types of poverty programs suggests that programs designed to increase employment are not necessarily superior in a welfare sense to simple transfer programs. (CH)

Reviews book about the accomplishments of the Economic Opportunity Act during its first four years of operation from 1964-1969. (BC)

The worth of educational programs in relation to their economic effect on the poor is analyzed. (CK)

Analyzed data from the mother-child data set of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for 898 young adolescents (10-12 years) to study the influences that explain the relations between poverty and depressive symptoms measured 2 years later. Findings show that youth depressive symptoms are multiply determined, and that poverty can adversely…

Although improving economic conditions have reduced the number of poor in the last few years, those who fell below the poverty level in any given year in the 1980s have not come closer to their poverty threshold. (Author)

Discusses community economic development (CED) and its importance as an approach to fighting poverty, an important dimension of any discussion of sustainable development. Offers the best examples of CED from the Canadian experience. (JOW)

Compared families referred to county child welfare agency for child neglect who were known to agency for 3+ years (chronic group); recently referred and substantiated (newly neglecting group); and referred but not substantiated (unconfirmed group). Found significant differences among groups in family size/composition, numbers/kinds of problems,…

Poverty in Africa is related to numerous factors: history of slavery, colonial and neocolonial rule, political and economic dependence, foreign debt, government corruption, high illiteracy, gender insensitivity, civil wars that create refugees, and unemployment. Solutions must take into account the political, economic, and social factors that…

Cross-sectional data, such as Census statistics, enable the re-enactment of household lifecourse through the construction of the household composition matrix, a tabulation of persons in households by their age and by the age of their corresponding household-heads. Household lifecourse is represented in the household composition matrix somewhat…

Industry and mainstream research and policy institutions often suggest that transgenic crop varieties can raise the productivity of poor third world farmers, feed the hungry, and reduce poverty. These claims are critically evaluated by examining global-hunger data, the constraints that affect the productivity of small farmers in the third world,…

This paper examines changes over the last 20 years which have shaped international human development assistance for the alleviation of poverty and inclusion and what it achieves. With reference to labour market restructuring and the contemporary rhetoric, design and management of human development interventions, it describes a study into how these…

The present study builds on past research that has found support for a conceptual model in which poverty is linked with adolescent psychological symptoms through economic stressors and impaired parenting. The present study examined this model in a sample of urban African American mothers and their adolescent children. In addition, an alternative…