Essay: The Third World

Sample Essay – Third World  The coherence of such a group was necessarily dependent on the presence of a common enemy. It was a negative unity: politically, against colonialism; in economic terms, solidarity between the ‘proletarian nations’ in...

Essay: Strategies to Prevent Poverty

Sample Essay – Strategies to Prevent Poverty Large population of Economists are willing to reduce poverty (both absolute and relative) by increasing the earnings of low skill workers and reducing the number of single parent families created by non-marital...

Essay: Poverty based on market income

Sample Essay – Poverty based on market income  Longstanding debate about the size and policy implications of transfers’ adverse behavioral responses, which pit supporters of the expansive welfare state against critics, sometimes has a tendency to neglect...

Essay: Bringing down relative poverty

Sample Essay – Bringing down relative poverty Economists plausibly argue that in countries with expansive welfare states, reining in deficits by cutting broad based health and pension benefits may well erode political support for additional transfers to low...

Essay: Treating relative poverty

Sample Essay – Treating relative poverty On a more technical note, there have been reservations about treating relative poverty as more or less synonymous with and indicative of income inequality. Relative poverty only considers incomes of households below a...