Pathways

Pathways é uma revista da Universidade de Stanford dedicada a assuntos de pobreza, desigualdade e de políticas sociais - é grátis, e pode ser acedida em Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality - Pathways. Recomenda-se.

O exemplar referente ao verão de 2009 saiu, e o seu índice é o seguinte:

"TRENDS:

• Getting to Equal: Progress, Pitfalls, and Policy Solutions on the Road to Gender Parity in the Workplace Have we "stalled out" in the historic march toward gender equality in the workplace? Pamela Stone weighs the evidence and makes the case for a new way forward[pode-se cruzar com tudo o que tem sido dito neste blogue sobre género, quotas de participação feminina].

RESEARCH IN BRIEF:

• New research developments A surprising trend in wealth inequality, the biological determinants of poor children's academic performance, the long-term effects of job displacement, and other cutting-edge research.

GOING GLOBAL: ANTIPOVERTY LESSONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD:

• Flexicurity Joshua Cohen and Charles Sabel argue that the time has come to build a 21st century labor market modeled on key principles of Denmark's "flexicurity" system.

• Pro-Poor Stimulus: Lessons from the Developing World Martin Ravallion looks to antipoverty programs in developing countries to understand how developed nations like the United States can provide stimulus while reducing long-term poverty.

• Combating Poverty by Building Assets: Lessons from Around the World Ray Boshara describes the key features of asset-building programs throughout the world and examines how the United States can apply them to achieve economic security for the poor.

• Northern Exposure: Learning from Canada?s Response to Winner-Take-All Inequality Jacob S. Hacker describes how the United States and Canada have taken two different roads and why the Canadian road provides lessons that the United States might take to heart.
  

INTERVENTIONS:

• Spotlight On...Growing Power and the Urban Farming Movement In our new "Spotlight On" feature, we talk with Growing Power's Will and Erika Allen about the potential and future of urban agriculture in combating poverty. "