Poverty & unemployment books

6263 books were found.

Democracy Without Decency: Good Citizenship and the War on Poverty

Democracy Without Decency: Good Citizenship and the...
Author: William M. Epstein (Professor of Social Work, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) ISBN: 9780271036335 Format: Hardback	$158.00
The conservative attacks on the welfare system in the United States over the years have put liberal defenders of... Read More >>

International Perspectives on Rural Welfare

International Perspectives on Rural Welfare
Author: Paul Milbourne (University of Cardiff, UK) , Paul Milbourne (University of Cardiff, UK) ISBN: 9781282526310 Format: Electronic book text	$364.16
Research on welfare has tended to focus on the national scale with relatively little attention given to the differential... Read More >>

More Than Bread: Ethnography of A Soup Kitchen

More Than Bread: Ethnography of A Soup Kitchen
Author: Irene Glasser ISBN: 9780817356187 Format: Paperback	$79.07
More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New... Read More >>

State of the World's Cities 2010/11: Cities for All: Bridging the Urban Divide

State of the World's Cities 2010/11: Cities for All:...
Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Un-Habitat) , United Nations ISBN: 9781849711760 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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State of the World's Cities 2010/11: Cities for All: Bridging the Urban Divide

State of the World's Cities 2010/11: Cities for All:...
Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Un-Habitat) ISBN: 9781849711753 Format: Hardback	$378.00
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Enough: Why the Worlds Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

Enough: Why the Worlds Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty...
Author: Scott Kilman , Thurow Roger ISBN: 9781458767332 Format: Paperback	$73.89
"For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while... Read More >>

Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples

Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing...
Author: Peter H. Schuck , Richard J. Zeckhauser ISBN: 9780815704287 Format: Paperback	$46.99
Who should be first in line for kidney transplants—the relatively healthy or the severely ill? Should chronic troublemakers... Read More >>

Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development

Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development...
Author: Ananya Roy (University of California, Berkeley) ISBN: 9781282569812 Format: Electronic book text	$472.03
<p>Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award! <p>This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the... Read More >>

Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty

Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty
Author: Sudhir Anand (Professor of Economics, University of Oxford and Official Fellow of St Catherine's College) , Paul Segal (Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and a Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford.) ISBN: 9780199558049 Format: Paperback	$113.95
This volume brings together the most recent debates in the measurement of global poverty - a topic of the greatest... Read More >>

Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development

Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development...
Author: Ananya Roy (University of California, USA) ISBN: 9780415876735 Format: Paperback	$77.99
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Labour Productivity, Investment in Human Capital and Youth Employment: Comparative Developments and Global Responses

Labour Productivity, Investment in Human Capital and...
Author: Roger Blanpain , W. Bromwich ISBN: 9789041132499 Format: Paperback	$393.36
Unemployment levels are on the rise nearly everywhere, and the rate is particularly high among young people. If... Read More >>

Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty

Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty
Author: Sudhir Anand (Professor of Economics, University of Oxford and Official Fellow of St Catherine's College) , Paul Segal (Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and a Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford.) ISBN: 9780199558032 Format: Hardback	$252.00
This volume brings together the most recent debates in the measurement of global poverty - a topic of the greatest... Read More >>

Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development

Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development...
Author: Ananya Roy (University of California, USA) ISBN: 9780415876728 Format: Hardback	$336.00
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Britain's War on Poverty

Britain's War on Poverty
Author: Jane Waldfogel ISBN: 9780871548979 Format: Hardback	$99.00
In 1999, one in four British children lived in poverty the third highest child poverty rate among industrialized... Read More >>

The Invisible Poor: A Portrait of Rural Poverty in Argentina

The Invisible Poor: A Portrait of Rural Poverty in Argentina...
Author: Gabriel Demombynes , Dorte Verner ISBN: 9780821382073 Format: Paperback	$38.95
Largely because of data limitations, profound gaps exist in the understanding of rural poverty in Argentina. As... Read More >>

The Earthscan Reader in Poverty and Biodiversity Conservation

The Earthscan Reader in Poverty and Biodiversity Conservation...
Author: Dilys Roe , Joanna Elliott ISBN: 9781844078431 Format: Paperback	$83.99
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Urban Poverty in China

Urban Poverty in China
Author: Fulong Wu , Chris Webster ISBN: 9781847209696 Format: Hardback	$266.00
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Invisible Poor: A Portrait of Rural Poverty in Argentina

Invisible Poor: A Portrait of Rural Poverty in Argentina...
Author: Gabriel Demombynes , Dorte Verner ISBN: 9781282657410 Format: Electronic book text	$79.15
Largely because of data limitations, profound gaps exist in the understanding of rural poverty in Argentina. As... Read More >>

Poor America: A Comparative-Historical Study of Poverty in the U.S. and Western Europe

Poor America: A Comparative-Historical Study of Poverty...
Author: Samuel J. Eldersveld ISBN: 9780739146637 Format: Paperback	$61.95
Poor America describes the sharp contrast in the extent of poverty between the United States and six Western European... Read More >>

Poor and Pregnant in New Delhi India

Poor and Pregnant in New Delhi India
Author: Helena VallIanatos ISBN: 9788121512152 Format: Hardback	$64.69
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Moving Out of Poverty, Volume 4: Rising from the Ashes of Conflict

Moving Out of Poverty, Volume 4: Rising from the Ashes...
Author: Senior Adviser Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Deepa Narayan (World Bank) , Senior Adviser Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Deepa Narayan (World Bank) ISBN: 9781282461260 Format: Electronic book text	$158.35
This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering... Read More >>

Parents of Poor Children in England 1580-1800

Parents of Poor Children in England 1580-1800
Author: The late Patricia Crawford (Honorary Senior Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia) ISBN: 9780199204809 Format: Hardback	$168.95
The first sustained study of the mothers and fathers of poor children in early modern England, drawing upon a wide... Read More >>

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and...
Author: Jacqueline Novogratz ISBN: 9781605294766 Format: Paperback	$32.99
Eleven years after donating her blue sweater to Goodwill, Novogratz spotted a young boy in Africa wearing that very... Read More >>

We All Need a Little Help, the Face of Homelessness- Book 2

We All Need a Little Help, the Face of Homelessness-...
Author: Jeremy Reynalds Ph D ISBN: 9781606939031 Format: Hardback	$59.40
THE HOMELESS ARE ALL AROUND US... He stands on the hot asphalt holding up a handwritten cardboard sign that reads,... Read More >>

The Legal Tender of Gender: Law, Welfare and the Regulation of Women's Poverty

The Legal Tender of Gender: Law, Welfare and the Regulation...
Author: Shelley A. M. Gavigan , Dorothy E Chunn ISBN: 9781841133157 Format: Paperback	$76.99
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