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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course covers topics and questions such as: What is poverty? How is it defined and measured in the United States and other countries? What are the different program designs that countries use to relieve poverty? To answer these questions, the course examines the main public policy frames that guide theory, research, policy, and practice. How do the definition and policies to deal with poverty change over time? What are the economic, political, and social forces that contribute to the persistence of poverty and its periodic reframing? Can social science to help to resolve the public policy debates that make poverty and its relief so controversial?
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- urban studies and planning
- how society should respond to poverty
- race
- politics of welfare
- out-of-wedlock births
- homelessness
- crime
- drugs
- knowledge about poverty and community
- empowerment from social science research
- public discourse and politics
- assumptions on which american approaches to poverty are based
- social controversy
- 1990s
- poverty
- welfare
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course provides an analytic framework for understanding the roles that gender and race play in defining the work worlds of women and men in our society, including ways in which gender intersects with race and class. The course examines specific workplace-related policies through a gender/race lens, including welfare policy, comparable worth, affirmative action, parental leave policy, child care policy and working time policies. Students are required to investigate ways in which these policies address gender and racial inequities, and think critically about mechanisms for change.
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- urban studies and planning
- gender
- race
- work
- equity
- child care
- education
- affirmative action
- public policy
- family
- class
- poverty
- government
- structural inequity
- labor
- economics
- market
- workplace
- comparable worth
- politics
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This class explores how public policy and private markets affect housing, economic development, and the local economy. It provides an overview of techniques and specified programs, policies, and strategies that are (and have been) directed at neighborhood development. It gives students an opportunity to reflect on their personal sense of the housing and community development process. And it emphasizes the institutional context within which public and private actions are undertaken.
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- urban studies and planning
- public policy
- private markets
- housing
- economic development
- the local economy
- neighborhood institutions
- public and private interventions
- housing and community development agendas
- inner city and low income neighborhoods
- poverty
- development
- urban growth
- initiatives
- planning
- urban youth
- education
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course examines the theories and policy debates over who can own real property, how to communicate and enforce property rights, and the range of liberties that they confer. It explores alternative economic, political, and sociological perspectives of property rights and their policy and planning implications.
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- urban studies and planning
- property
- property law
- international law
- ownership
- migration
- poverty
- wealth
- power
- social values
- social classes
- regime change
- economics
- institutional perspectives
- real estate
- natural resources
- sustainability
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course treats public-sector policies, programs, and projects that attempt to increase employment through development-promoting measures in the economic realm, through support and regulation. It discusses the types of initiatives, tasks, and environments that are most conducive to equitable outcomes, and emphasizes throughout the understandings gained about why certain initiatives work and others don’t.
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- urban studies and planning
- local economic development
- poverty
- developing countries
- public-sector policies
- employment
- labor standards
- environmental standards
- political economy
- poverty reduction
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course will examine literature and practice regarding community-owned enterprise as an alternative means of increasing community participation and development. The use of cooperatives, credit unions, land trusts, and limited stock ownership enterprises for increasing community participation and empowerment will be examined.
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- urban studies and planning
- cooperatives
- capitalism
- participatory democracy
- social capital
- community governance
- politics
- economy
- power dynamics
- environmental sustainability
- economic development
- markets
- institutions
- community development
- poverty
- real estate
- trusts
- housing coops
- banking
- unions
- pensions
- investments
- privatization
- gainsharing
- remitta
File: 11-020-fall-2003.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy
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- urban studies and planning
- how society should respond to poverty
- race
- politics of welfare
- out-of-wedlock births
- homelessness
- crime
- drugs
- knowledge about poverty and community
- empowerment from social science research
- public discourse and politics
- assumptions on which american approaches to poverty are based
- social controversy
- 1990s
- poverty
- welfare
- extra
File: 11-237-spring-2005.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Gender and Race, Work, and Public Policy
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- urban studies and planning
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- work
- equity
- child care
- education
- affirmative action
- public policy
- family
- class
- poverty
- government
- structural inequity
- labor
- economics
- market
- workplace
- comparable worth
- politics
File: 11-467j-spring-2005.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Property Rights in Transition
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- urban studies and planning
- property
- property law
- international law
- ownership
- migration
- poverty
- wealth
- power
- social values
- social classes
- regime change
- economics
- institutional perspectives
- real estate
- natural resources
- sustainability
File: 11-401-fall-2004.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Introduction to Housing, Community and Economic Development
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- urban studies and planning
- public policy
- private markets
- housing
- economic development
- the local economy
- neighborhood institutions
- public and private interventions
- housing and community development agendas
- inner city and low income neighborhoods
- poverty
- development
- urban growth
- initiatives
- planning
- urban youth
- education
File: 11-471-spring-2010.zip
This OER is part of OCW: Targeting the Poor: Local Economic Development in Developing Countries
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- urban studies and planning
- local economic development
- poverty
- developing countries
- public-sector policies
- employment
- labor standards
- environmental standards
- political economy
- poverty reduction
File: 11-954-spring-2005.zip
This OER is part of OCW: 11.954 Community-Owned Enterprise and Civic Participation (MIT)
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- urban studies and planning
- cooperatives
- capitalism
- participatory democracy
- social capital
- community governance
- politics
- economy
- power dynamics
- environmental sustainability
- economic development
- markets
- institutions
- community development
- poverty
- real estate
- trusts
- housing coops
- banking
- unions
- pensions
- investments
- privatization
- gainsharing
- remitta
File: contro_frame_poverty.pdf
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- urban studies and planning
- how society should respond to poverty
- race
- politics of welfare
- out-of-wedlock births
- homelessness
- crime
- drugs
- knowledge about poverty and community
- empowerment from social science research
- public discourse and politics
- assumptions on which american approaches to poverty are based
- social controversy
- 1990s
- poverty
- welfare
- extra
File: bell_paper.pdf
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- urban studies and planning
- how society should respond to poverty
- race
- politics of welfare
- out-of-wedlock births
- homelessness
- crime
- drugs
- knowledge about poverty and community
- empowerment from social science research
- public discourse and politics
- assumptions on which american approaches to poverty are based
- social controversy
- 1990s
- poverty
- welfare
- extra
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This OER is part of OCW: Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy
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This OER is part of OCW: Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy
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Inherited Tag(s):
- urban studies and planning
- how society should respond to poverty
- race
- politics of welfare
- out-of-wedlock births
- homelessness
- crime
- drugs
- knowledge about poverty and community
- empowerment from social science research
- public discourse and politics
- assumptions on which american approaches to poverty are based
- social controversy
- 1990s
- poverty
- welfare
- extra
File: yamicia_polipap2.pdf
This OER is part of OCW: Gender and Race, Work, and Public Policy
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- urban studies and planning
- gender
- race
- work
- equity
- child care
- education
- affirmative action
- public policy
- family
- class
- poverty
- government
- structural inequity
- labor
- economics
- market
- workplace
- comparable worth
- politics
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