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Physiocrats
THE PHYSIOCRATS WERE a group of French Enlightenment thinkers of the 1760s who called themselves economists. The term physiocracy, introduced by Dupont de Nemours (1767), is derived from the Greek words physis (“nature”) and kratein (“rule”), implying thus a principal ...
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- Economics of Poverty
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- Physiocrats
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- Exclusion
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- Welfare Dependence
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- Pierce, Franklin (Administration)
- Polk, James (Administration)
- Poor Laws
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- Roosevelt, Franklin (Administration)
- Roosevelt, Theodore (Administration)
- Taft, William Howard (Administration)
- Taylor, Zachary (Administration)
- Truman, Harry (Administration)
- Tyler, John (Administration)
- Utopian Socialists
- Van Buren, Martin (Administration)
- War on Poverty
- Washington, George (Administration)
- Wilson, Woodrow (Administration)
- World War I
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- Measurements and Definitions of Poverty
- Absolute-Income-Based Measures of Poverty
- Arab Definition of Poverty
- Australian Definition of Poverty
- Axiom of Monotonicity and Axiom of Transfers
- Beveridge Scheme
- Brazilian Definition of Poverty
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Capability Measure of Poverty
- Chinese Definition of Poverty
- Comparative Research Program on Poverty
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- Contextual Poverty
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- Demographics
- Dependency Ratio
- Deprivation Index
- Direct and Indirect Measures of Poverty
- Duration of Poverty
- Economic Definitions of Poverty
- Economic Insufficiency
- Endemic Poverty
- Engel Coefficient
- European Relative-Income Standard of Poverty
- European Union Definition of Poverty
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- Extreme Poverty
- Food-Ratio Poverty Line
- Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke Index
- Gini Coefficient
- Headcount Index
- Human Poverty Index
- Indicators of Poverty
- Joint Center for Poverty Research
- Living-Standards Measurement Study
- Luxembourg Employment Study
- Luxembourg Income Study
- Mapping Poverty
- Means-Testing
- National Research Council
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- Poverty Assessment
- Poverty Clock
- Poverty Gap
- Poverty Gap Index
- Poverty Rate
- Poverty Research
- Poverty Threshold
- Relative Welfare Index
- Relative-Income-Based Measures of Poverty
- Rural Poverty Research Center
- Scientific Definitions of Poverty
- Secondary Poverty
- Sen Index
- Sen-Shorrocks-Thon Index
- Speenhamland System
- Squared Poverty Gap Index
- Standard Food Basket
- Standard Food Basket Variant
- Standard of Living
- Subjective Measures of Poverty
- TIP Curves
- Totally Fuzzy and Relative (TFR) Poverty Measures
- Traumatic Poverty
- UBN-PL Method
- Ultimate Poverty
- University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research
- USDA Poverty Line
- Voluntary Poverty
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- World Bank Poverty Lines
- People
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Bellamy, Edward
- Black, Hugo L.
- Brandeis, Louis D.
- Bryan, William Jennings
- Calvin, John
- Carnegie, Andrew
- Coughlin, Charles
- de Soto, Hernando
- Donnelly, Ignatius
- Engels, Friedrich
- Evans, George Henry
- Foucault, Michel
- Francis of Assisi
- Frank, Andre Gunder
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Friedman, Milton
- Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Gandhi, Mahatma
- George, Henry
- Giddens, Anthony
- Gilder, George
- Greeley, Horace
- Harrington, Michael
- Heilbronner, Robert
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Hobson, John
- Lewis, Arthur
- Locke, John
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Malthus, Thomas
- Marshall, Alfred
- Marx, Karl
- Mill, John Stuart
- Mother Teresa
- Owen, Robert
- Polanyi, Karl
- Prebisch, Raul
- Rawls, John
- Ricardo, David
- Sen, Amartya
- Smith, Adam
- Thompson, T. Phillips
- Wallerstein, Immanuel
- Weber, Max
- Politics and Poverty
- Poverty Relief Initiatives
- 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
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Microcredit
- Millennium Development Goals
- Minimum Wage
- Pro-Poor Growth
- Rationing
- Regulation
- Rural Antipoverty Programs
- Social Assistance
- Supplemental Security Income
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
- UNDP Regional Project for Overcoming Poverty
- Unemployment Insurance
- United Nations Development Program
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- Wealth Tax
- Workers' Compensation
- Workfare
- Work-Welfare Programs
- Religious and Secular Charities
- Africa Faith and Justice Network
- Brotherhood of St. Laurence
- Catholic Campaign for Human Development
- Christian Antipoverty Campaigns
- Christian Community Health Fellowship
- Christmas Seals
- Church World Services
- Community-Based Antipoverty Programs
- Damascus Road
- Easter Seals
- Evangelicals for Social Action
- Faith-Based Antipoverty Programs
- Franciscan Order
- Goodwill Industries
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Jesuits
- Jubilee 2000
- Judaism and Poverty
- Living Waters for the World
- March of Dimes
- Mendicant Orders
- Milwaukee New Hope Program
- Missionaries
- National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
- OXFAM
- Partnership to Cut Hunger in Africa
- Polish Humanitarian Organization
- Presbyterian Hunger Project
- Protestant Churches
- Rebuilding Together
- Roy Wilkins Center
- Samaritans
- Save the Children
- Share Our Strength
- Society of St. Vincent de Paul
- United Methodist Church Initiatives
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- YMCA and YWCA
- Women and Poverty
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