The aim of this article is to examine the intersection of race and poverty, two critical factors fueling persistent racial and ethnic health disparities among urban populations. From the morass of social determinants that shape the health of racial and ethnic communities in our urban centers, we will offer promising practices and potential solutions to eliminating racial and ethnic health dispa...

Affirmative action policies have been proposed and used in both developed and developing countries to raise the well-being of disadvantaged minority groups. Among the most radical of these policies has been to mandate political representation for minorities. This paper examines the effect of political reservation for minorities on poverty in India. The Indian constitution stipulates that the sh...

Urban renewal policies since the New Deal era have had complicated effects on the outcomes of the American poor. Using Amartya Sen’s capability framework, this paper identifies housing as a key resource necessary for well-being. Through the examination of urban renewal policies, specifically housing initiatives, since the 1930s, one can observe hegemonic outcomes that have occurred as a result ...

There is currently a growing interest in the spatial causes of poverty, particularly its persistence. This paper presents methodological innovations that have been developed for investigating the relationship between physical segregation and economic marginalisation in the urban environment. Using GIS to layer historical poverty data, contemporary deprivation indexes and space syntax measures o...

This paper discusses the various channels through which stabilization policies affect poverty in developing countries. It begins by reviewing someof the recent evidence on poverty rates, then provides ataxonomic review of the various channels through which macroeconomicpolicies affect the poor, with a particular emphasis on the role of thelabour market. The analytical framework capturessome of ...

This paper explores trends in poverty and nutrition during economic transformation and especially the impacts linked to government support for agriculture during the process. Analysis of multiyear data for 29 developing countries confirms that structural transformation raises total income and that poverty falls faster with strong support for agriculture. In turn, poverty reduction supports impr...

OVERVIEW This issue of Perspectives presents a selection of papers presented at the Culture, Governance, and Rural Poverty in the Midwest conference, cosponsored by the RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center and the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. The papers reported here cover the topics of hunger, workforce development, the economy and less educated workers, and the work-wel...