Annotated Bibliography for Economics of Poverty

Corak M., Fertig M., and Tamm, M. "A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany." Review of Income and Wealth. 54.4 (2008): 547-571. Print. This source focuses on child poverty in Germany from 1980-2004, specifically in how unification affected this rate. Germanys poverty rate has increased since unification, mostly because former East Germans have had a hard time fitting in and finding jobs in the New Germany. Germany has also had an increased rate of immigrants since unification which has also increased the poverty rate amongst children. Germany also still has a very physically noticeable difference between East and West Germany, East Germans having a much higher rate of poverty and unemployment.

George, Henry. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the Remedy. New York: The Modern Library, 1938. Print. This source focuses on why it is that poverty is so widespread when so much wealth exists in the world. This book, written in 1897, especially focuses on the advancements of technology and the growth of cities and how that affects poverty rate. The author argues that as cities become more expansive, land becomes more valuable therefore increasing poverty. The author offers solutions such as having a single land tax which would give landowners an incentive to use the land productively and also help lower poverty rates.

Heflinger, Craig A, and Brian Christens. "Rural Behavioral Health Services for Children and Adolescents: an Ecological and Community Psychology Analysis." Journal of Community Psychology. 34.4 (2006): 379-400. Print. This source focuses on the psychological and other health effects on poverty, specifically for those who live in rural areas. Rural areas tend to be highly impoverished and people usually have much more health problems than those who live in urban settings. This article argues that part of the problem of rural health issues is that the people have a lack of education and also a lack of trust for outsiders, or people who come from places other than where they are. The article proposes that more education for rural areas would help not only poverty rates, but with any health issues rural citizens face.

"Hunger and World Poverty." Poverty.com -. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2014. This website focuses on informing people to what poverty is and who it affects. It states that about one person dies every four seconds due to hunger, and has a picture display of the people who have died in the hour that you visit the website. It also has picture displays of people who have died of AIDS, pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, and other poverty-related illnesses.

Poverty.com, which was founded in 2007, asked developed nations to donate money in order to help end poverty. They are supported by the UN.

Landes, David S. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are so Rich and Some so Poor. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. Print. This source is a book written in order to analyze why it is that some countries experienced great economic growth, while others remain poor and impoverished. The author claims that protestant countries, such as Germany and Holland, were taught to value hard work and therefore tend to have more money, as opposed to catholic countries, such as Ireland and Spain. Catholic countries also often make methods of birth control illegal which makes the population larger and more difficult to sustain. He also argues that some countries are impoverished simply because their landscape does not offer any kind of nourishing crops. European countries are able to grow plants and keep animals, whereas many African countries are not very life-sustaining.

"MDG 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger." WHO. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2014. This source came from the World Health Organizations website and describes one of the goals of the United Nations. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 is specifically targeted toward ending poverty and hunger in all nations, even in developed ones. There is enough money and food in the world for everyone to have enough to eat and money to sustain themselves and live comfortably.

Osmani, Siddiqur R. Economic Inequality and Group Welfare: A Theory of Comparison with Application to Bangladesh. Oxford [Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, 1982. Print. This source was written by a Bangladeshi man and is meant to compare social welfare between America and Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a developing country, so poverty is much more widespread, however the author says that these impoverished people are no worse or better off than those in America. Impoverished people suffer in the same way in both countries, and both governments are more or less ill-equipped to take care of them.

Wallace, Andrea, Jill Scott, Mary Klinnert, and Mark E. Anderson. "Impoverished Children with Asthma: a Pilot Study of Urban Healthcare Access." Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing. 9.2 (2004): 50-58. Print. This journal article is a study of how impoverished children with asthma often dont get the treatment that they need. The main problem they discovered was that children often see many different healthcare providers, and communication is often a problem. The solution that was thought of was to have expanded nursing roles. Nurses are often the ones that families speak to the most when in the hospital, and their expanded roles and use would help to treat patients better. More widespread healthcare access would also help with impoverished peoples.

Weisbrod, Burton A. The Economics of Poverty: An American Paradox. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1965. Print. This book focuses on the wealth inequality that exists in America. America is one of the richest countries in the world, and yet poverty is so widespread. This source also discusses the paradox of the American Dream. Americans often think that it is relatively easy to dig yourself out of poverty, but unfortunately the American Dream often requires money and/or skill that a person might not have.

Wilson, Marcella. "Treating Poverty In America." Policy & Practice (19426828) 72.2 (2014): 8. MasterFILE Complete. Web. 14 Apr. 2014. This article discusses the authors experiment to study poverty in America, and her ideas for how to help combat poverty. Her main program, Transition To Success (TTS), treats poverty as a disease. The program is designed to get impoverished people to a state of independency and encourages them to volunteer for something. The program also has education and job-matching resources.