Concept information
Preferred term
poverty relief initiatives
Definition
- Poverty and poverty alleviation are two of the most important topics in global studies. In a variety of disciplines in global studies, the most important questions include understanding what poverty is, what it is like to be poor, what causes poverty, how poverty can be alleviated, and how poverty is reproduced or reduced by different institutional arrangements. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Studies; Poverty and Poverty Alleviation]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- access-to-enterprise zones
- adjustment programs
- Aid to Families with Dependent Children
- asset-based antipoverty programs
- Congressional Hunger Center
- earned-income tax credit
- economic growth and poverty reduction strategy
- federal targeted training
- food stamps
- G-8 Africa Action Plan
- Great Society Programs
- guaranteed assistance
- head start
- heifer project
- Help the Aged
- housing assistance
- Inter-American Development Bank
- international development cooperation forum
- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- living wage campaign
- low-income cut-offs
- means-tested government antipoverty programs
- microcredit
- millennium development goals
- minimum wage
- pro-poor growth
- rationing
- regulations
- rural antipoverty programs
- social assistance
- supplemental security income
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
- undp regional project for overcoming poverty
- unemployment insurance
- United Nations Development Programme
- urban antipoverty programs
- wealth tax
- workers' compensation
- workfare
- work-welfare programs
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-CPV832FC-9
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