How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending, subsidies, taxes? Standard fiscal incidence analyses applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay using a comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes cash transfers reduce inequality by nontrivial amounts but less so Peru. While direct are progressive, redistributive impact small because as share of GDP generally low. Cash quite progressive...

Over the last two decades, new trajectories have taken hold in criminology—the study of masculinity and crime, after a century neglect, geography crime. This article brings both those fields together to analyse impact globalization resources sector on frontier cultures violence. paper approaches this issue through case masculinities violence communities at forefront generating resource extraction for global economies. argues that high rates among men living work camps these socio-spatial...

A comprehensive tax and benefit incidence analysis is presented covering the redistributive fiscal instruments implemented in Mexico 2008 2010, representative of urban rural sectors, as well nationally. The expansion basic social programs effectively targeted direct monetary transfers have increased progressivity Mexico’s system recent years. However, overall impact this limited by a comparatively unproductive system, small share resources allocated to transfers, significant spending tied...

Journal Article Masculinity, Rurality And Violence Get access Kerry Carrington, Carrington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Scott * School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Science, University New England, Armidale 2351, Australia; jscott6@une.edu.au. The British Criminology, Volume 48, Issue 5, September 2008, Pages 641–666, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azn031 Published: 23 June 2008

With more frequent and intense disasters, disaster risk reduction (DRR) has become increasingly important as a fundamental approach to sustainable development. Indigenous communities hold unique position in DRR discourse that they are often vulnerable than non-Indigenous groups yet also traditional knowledges enable greater understanding of hazards disasters. This article provides an overview multilateral agreements for incorporating Peoples into wider debates on policies well development...

OBJECTIVES: To describe firearm storage practices in homes with children who have versus do not self-harm risk factors. METHODS: A cross-sectional analysis of a nationally representative probability-based online survey US adults conducted 2015 (n = 3949; response rate 55%). Respondents self-reported whether they lived and were caretaker/health care decision-maker for child. Household ownership was ascertained all respondents; how firearms stored guns asked gun owning respondents only; their...

1. Introduction: The State of Class Analysis: Rosemary Crompton (City University) and John Scott (Essex University). 2. Employment Relations Structure: Aage Sorensen (Harvard 3. Social Position from Narrative Data: Jay Gershuny 4. Inequality the Production Money: Geoff Ingham (Cambridge 5. Logics Urban Polarisation: Views From Below: Loic Wacquant (Berkeley 6. Employment, Unemployment Young People Cyclical Transitions: Robert MacDonald Jane Marsh (University Teeside). 7. Late 20th Century...