After-Death Inventories as a Source for the Study of Material Culture, Economic Well-Being, and Household Formation among the Poor of Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam

The outreach of micro-finance programme is considered to be a means enhance the economic well-being among the member means to enhance households through poverty alleviation. A wide cross-country variation in the outreach of micro-finance programme to the poor households is observed in the world. Despite the significant growth of micro-finance institutions and its active borrowers, the penetration of micro-finance lending services to the poor households in India is observed to be limited. In addition, there is a wide inter-state disparity in the achievement of micro-finance outreach in India especially among the poor households. A composite index has been constructed using the penetration, availability and usage indicators of micro-finance outreach to examine the interstate variations in the level of its achievement. Subsequently, attempt has been made to analyse the role of micro-finance in alleviating poverty across the states of India. The result shows that out of 27 states and Union Territories, only in seven states (Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura, and Karnataka) outreach of micro-finance programme has made a significant impact on the reduction of poverty.

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Guarding Public Coffers or Trapping the Poor? The Role of Public Assistance Asset Limits in Program Efficacy and Family Economic Well‐Being

Poverty & Public Policy ◽

10.1002/pop4.244 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (1-2) ◽

pp. 12-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Leah Hamilton ◽

David Rothwell ◽

Jin Huang ◽

Yunju Nam ◽

Taylor Dollar

Keyword(s):

Public Assistance ◽

Well Being ◽

The Poor ◽

Program Efficacy ◽

Economic Well Being

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Meeting World Food Needs: Food Policy and Population Growth Among the Poorest of the Poor

Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council ◽

10.1017/s0163548400003411 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 101-106

Author(s):

Wayne A. Schutjer ◽

C. Shannon Stokes

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Food Production ◽

Food Policy ◽

Well Being ◽

Rural Populations ◽

World Food ◽

Minimum Level ◽

The Poor ◽

Food Needs ◽

Economic Well Being

The current and future world food problem is centered in low income nations and among low income segments of populations world wide. The thesis of this paper is that increases in income and food production in the poorer nations and among low income segments of rural populations elsewhere are likely to aggravate that problem in the first instance. It is after some minimum level of economic well being has been attained that further increases in income will result in reduced family size.

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Income Distribution, Market Structure, and Individual Welfare

The B E Journal of Theoretical Economics ◽

10.2202/1935-1704.1586 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alexander Tarasov

Keyword(s):

Income Inequality ◽

Income Distribution ◽

Market Structure ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

Monopolistic Competition ◽

Well Being ◽

Welfare Gains ◽

The Poor ◽

Heterogenous Firms ◽

Economic Well Being

This paper explores how income distribution affects market structure, prices, and economic well-being of different consumer groups. I consider a general equilibrium model of monopolistic competition with free entry, heterogenous firms and consumers that share identical but non-homothetic preferences. The results in the paper suggest that poverty reduction might be of a greater importance than lowering income inequality, as lower income inequality does not necessarily lead to welfare gains of the poor. In particular, I show that higher income inequality may benefit the poor via a trickle-down effect operating through the entry of firms into the market.

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The Role Of Islamic Courts In Land Reforms In Pakistan

Al-Idah | Shaykh Zayed Islamic Centre, University of Peshawar ◽

10.37556/al-idah.038.01.0626 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 38 (- 1) ◽

Author(s):

Ataullah Khan Mahmood ◽

Ghufran Ahmad

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Distributive Justice ◽

Well Being ◽

Land Reforms ◽

The Poor ◽

Vested Interests ◽

Land Holdings ◽

Economic Well Being ◽

Islamic Courts

A vast majority of Muslim scholars opine that land reforms including the fixation of ceiling on individual land-holdings can be carried out without offending any Islamic teachings. Moreover, article 253 of the Constitution empowers the Parliament to prescribe the maximum limits as to property or any class thereof which may be owned, held, possessed or controlled by any person. Likewise, such reforms are considered essential as for as requirements of distributive justice is concerned and to further the desired Islamic goals of social justice, eradication of social evils and to ensure economic well-being of the poor attached to earth. To achieve these desired goals, land reforms laws were introduced in the country. However, the beneficiaries of feudalism and landlordism challenged these laws in the Islamic Courts to protect their vested interests. These judicial forums were split in their findings regarding the fate of these laws. This article analyses the findings of these forums to suggest that weather those who uphold these laws have stronger reasons.

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In Search of Common Happiness

10.7591/cornell/9781501754012.003.0004 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 70-103

Author(s):

Brad A. Jones

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

New York City ◽

Political Culture ◽

York City ◽

Well Being ◽

The Political ◽

Economic Well Being ◽

Stamp Act

This chapter investigates how, in the absence of a shared discourse of Loyalism, Britons in the Atlantic were confronted with a crisis of identity in the late 1760s and early 1770s. Britons were reared in a shared political culture that regularly framed political controversies as a struggle between popish tyranny and Protestant liberty. This was certainly true during celebrations of the repeal of the unpopular Stamp Act, which many perceived as detrimental to the political and economic well-being of their empire. But by 1773, the inhabitants of New York City, Glasgow, Kingston, and Halifax had begun to pursue different and often competing paths in the ongoing crisis, which demonstrated the tenuous nature of popular British loyalty in the latter half of the eighteenth century. In the absence of a common shared enemy, these same subjects reverted to far more local and conflicting understandings of Britishness, which were defined most crucially by events that directly concerned their communities.

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A System-of-Systems Framework for Improved Human, Ecologic and Economic Well-Being

10.20944/preprints201702.0039.v1 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Ash M. Genaidy ◽

Ronald L. Huston ◽

Dion D. Dionysiou ◽

Waldemar Karwowski

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

System Of Systems ◽

System Level ◽

Social Agents ◽

The Poor ◽

Poor Understanding ◽

Urban Problems ◽

Institutional Model ◽

Systems Framework ◽

Economic Well Being

It is postulated in this research that the paradox of “advances in technology and management not keeping pace with the ever-increasing urban problems” is due to the poor understanding of person-focused governance of societal, environmental and economic entities. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to present an adaptive institutional model of person-driven effectiveness and ineffectiveness. The model proposes that human, ecologic and economic outcomes are heavily influenced by a complex system of systems, spanning from individually unique “non-physical influencers” to a broader set of social and environmental influencers that have a common impact on the larger society-environment-economy (SEE) system. At the heart of the model is an analytic formulation that explains the phenomena of non-physical blocker, enhancer and indifferent that are responsible for the adaptation and maladaptation of social agents, and accordingly for the sustainability and unsustainability of SEE systems. Examples are provided to illustrate the model applications: (a) the non-physical and maladaptive syndromes as antecedents of multi-morbidity and (b) the broadened and narrowed minds as sources of sustainability and unsustainability at the SEE system level within the context of emerging technologies such as engineered nanomaterials.

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