53 Families, Relationships and Societies • vol 8 • no 1 • 53–72 • © Policy Press 2019 Print ISSN 2046 7435 • Online ISSN 2046 7443 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204674317X14908575604683 Accepted for publication 23 March 2017 • First published online 05 April 2017 article Inheritance and family conflicts: exploring asset transfers shaping intergenerational relations Misa Izuhara,1 M.Izuhara@bristol.ac.uk University of Bristol, UK Stephan Köppe, stephan.koeppe@ucd.ie University College Dublin, Ireland In contemporary societies with slower economic growth and
221 Policy & Politics • vol 43 • no 2 • 221-37 • © Policy Press 2015 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557312X655837 Community asset transfer in Northern Ireland Brendan Murtagh, b.murtagh@qub.ac.uk Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland Community Asset Transfer (CAT), introduced by the New Labour administration and strengthened by the Coalition, aims to provide local groups with the opportunity to own public sector facilities and related services. It is a contested concept, with
Introduction Community Asset Transfer (CAT) involves the outsourcing of public facilities through a consultation process where community organisations can bid to take on the management of the facility on a leasehold or freehold basis. Typically, leases are of at least 25 years to be considered a CAT, and the groups involved need to be non-profit or constituted by charitable objectives ( Locality, 2018 ). Since its inception in 2002 CAT has been used by an increasing number of local authorities (LAs) through them listing facilities for disposal, with community
Poverty in India is intimately connected with caste, untouchability, colonialism and indentured servitude, inseparable from the international experience of slavery and race.
Focusing on historical and modern practices, this book goes beyond traditional economic approaches to poverty and demonstrates its genesis in exclusion, isolation, domination and extraction resulting in the removal of human and economic rights. Examining cash and assets transfers and enhancement of women’s rights, primary health and education, it scrutinizes inadequacies in compensatory policies for redressing the balance.
This is an original interdisciplinary contribution that offers bold domestic and international policies anchored in human radicalism to eradicate poverty.
a holistic whole in order to get a grip on the matter of poverty and inequality. Partial compensatory policies such as cash and asset transfers and enhancements in primary health and education provision are well-intended socio-economic policies though they are inadequate in significantly reducing the gap of inequality or eradicating poverty. Only when the original sources of inequality and poverty are recognized by governments can the actions that can really solve the phenomena be put in place and implemented. Such actions relate to both domestic and
Poverty in India is intimately connected with caste, untouchability, colonialism and indentured servitude, inseparable from the international experience of slavery and race.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on historical and contemporary practices, this book goes beyond traditional economic approaches to poverty and demonstrates its genesis in exclusion, isolation, domination, and extraction resulting in the removal of human and economic rights. It hypothesizes that poverty and inequality do not represent a static condition but can be attributed to institutions such as slavery and indentured servitude under colonialism through historical evidence from Western countries, and to practices of caste and untouchability in the Indian subcontinent, as evidenced from its ancient texts and modern literature. Their continuing ramifications are manifested in the prevalence of poverty and inequality.
Analysis of data from international and domestic sources reveals the continuation of poverty, and growing income and wealth inequality in India with cross-country comparisons that exhibit similar trends. The condition of the bottom 50 per cent of the population worsens while the top ten per cent benefits on a continuing trend. The Human Development Index, Multidimensional Poverty Index and Happiness Score are used to draw conclusions.
The book points to the inadequacies in prevailing compensatory policies to redress poverty and inequality. It recommends intensification of cash and assets transfers, tax policy reform to reduce inequality, selective expenditure policies in primary health, education and the environment, perceptible enhancement of women’s rights and role, and Dalit (Untouchables’) rights. Using ‘radical humanism’, it proposes compulsory social service by youth in rural and urban sectors, and doing away with caste-based surnames. It urges concerted efforts to push for international financial reparations to counter the historical incidence of colonial transfers.
Poverty in India is intimately connected with caste, untouchability, colonialism and indentured servitude, inseparable from the international experience of slavery and race.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on historical and contemporary practices, this book goes beyond traditional economic approaches to poverty and demonstrates its genesis in exclusion, isolation, domination, and extraction resulting in the removal of human and economic rights. It hypothesizes that poverty and inequality do not represent a static condition but can be attributed to institutions such as slavery and indentured servitude under colonialism through historical evidence from Western countries, and to practices of caste and untouchability in the Indian subcontinent, as evidenced from its ancient texts and modern literature. Their continuing ramifications are manifested in the prevalence of poverty and inequality.
Analysis of data from international and domestic sources reveals the continuation of poverty, and growing income and wealth inequality in India with cross-country comparisons that exhibit similar trends. The condition of the bottom 50 per cent of the population worsens while the top ten per cent benefits on a continuing trend. The Human Development Index, Multidimensional Poverty Index and Happiness Score are used to draw conclusions.
The book points to the inadequacies in prevailing compensatory policies to redress poverty and inequality. It recommends intensification of cash and assets transfers, tax policy reform to reduce inequality, selective expenditure policies in primary health, education and the environment, perceptible enhancement of women’s rights and role, and Dalit (Untouchables’) rights. Using ‘radical humanism’, it proposes compulsory social service by youth in rural and urban sectors, and doing away with caste-based surnames. It urges concerted efforts to push for international financial reparations to counter the historical incidence of colonial transfers.
Poverty in India is intimately connected with caste, untouchability, colonialism and indentured servitude, inseparable from the international experience of slavery and race.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on historical and contemporary practices, this book goes beyond traditional economic approaches to poverty and demonstrates its genesis in exclusion, isolation, domination, and extraction resulting in the removal of human and economic rights. It hypothesizes that poverty and inequality do not represent a static condition but can be attributed to institutions such as slavery and indentured servitude under colonialism through historical evidence from Western countries, and to practices of caste and untouchability in the Indian subcontinent, as evidenced from its ancient texts and modern literature. Their continuing ramifications are manifested in the prevalence of poverty and inequality.
Analysis of data from international and domestic sources reveals the continuation of poverty, and growing income and wealth inequality in India with cross-country comparisons that exhibit similar trends. The condition of the bottom 50 per cent of the population worsens while the top ten per cent benefits on a continuing trend. The Human Development Index, Multidimensional Poverty Index and Happiness Score are used to draw conclusions.
The book points to the inadequacies in prevailing compensatory policies to redress poverty and inequality. It recommends intensification of cash and assets transfers, tax policy reform to reduce inequality, selective expenditure policies in primary health, education and the environment, perceptible enhancement of women’s rights and role, and Dalit (Untouchables’) rights. Using ‘radical humanism’, it proposes compulsory social service by youth in rural and urban sectors, and doing away with caste-based surnames. It urges concerted efforts to push for international financial reparations to counter the historical incidence of colonial transfers.
Poverty in India is intimately connected with caste, untouchability, colonialism and indentured servitude, inseparable from the international experience of slavery and race.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on historical and contemporary practices, this book goes beyond traditional economic approaches to poverty and demonstrates its genesis in exclusion, isolation, domination, and extraction resulting in the removal of human and economic rights. It hypothesizes that poverty and inequality do not represent a static condition but can be attributed to institutions such as slavery and indentured servitude under colonialism through historical evidence from Western countries, and to practices of caste and untouchability in the Indian subcontinent, as evidenced from its ancient texts and modern literature. Their continuing ramifications are manifested in the prevalence of poverty and inequality.
Analysis of data from international and domestic sources reveals the continuation of poverty, and growing income and wealth inequality in India with cross-country comparisons that exhibit similar trends. The condition of the bottom 50 per cent of the population worsens while the top ten per cent benefits on a continuing trend. The Human Development Index, Multidimensional Poverty Index and Happiness Score are used to draw conclusions.
The book points to the inadequacies in prevailing compensatory policies to redress poverty and inequality. It recommends intensification of cash and assets transfers, tax policy reform to reduce inequality, selective expenditure policies in primary health, education and the environment, perceptible enhancement of women’s rights and role, and Dalit (Untouchables’) rights. Using ‘radical humanism’, it proposes compulsory social service by youth in rural and urban sectors, and doing away with caste-based surnames. It urges concerted efforts to push for international financial reparations to counter the historical incidence of colonial transfers.
Policies are proposed as ‘radical humanism’ to eradicate poverty and redress inequality while vanquishing caste and untouchability. On the economic policy side, the chapter recommends intensification of cash and assets transfers and tax policy reform to reduce inequality through higher income tax progressivity, wealth, gift and inheritance taxes, increased taxes on luxuries, use of earmarked taxes for their intended purposes of education and health and tax administration reform to counter tax evasion.
It recommends cutting back bureaucratic hurdles, expanding private-public partnership in the provision of socio-economic services such as hospitals, and encouragement of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for services to the very poor.
It recommends perceptible step-up of women’s rights through proportional representation and children’s condition including health and education. It proposes a youth task force to implement compulsory social service by youth in rural and urban sectors following existing global and prior domestic experience, and proposes a framework for services by sector. It urges political reform while pointing out that caste-based politics is unlikely to serve the nation in the long run.
It traces the ongoing work at the United Nations to draw attention to financial transfers of the colonial era and strongly suggests international financial reparations to counter the ramifications of global colonialism.
