Poverty & unemployment books

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Zimbabwe: Poverty, Poverty & Poverty

Zimbabwe: Poverty, Poverty & Poverty

Author: Vimbai Chaumba Kwashirai
ISBN: 9781608764860
Format: Hardback
$234.96

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Poverty in Africa

Poverty in Africa

Author: Thomas W Beasley
ISBN: 9781607417378
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Brings together research on programs and policies from around the globe that are related to poverty in Africa and...  Read More >>

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 >>

From the Ground Up: Improving Government Performance with Independent Monitoring Organizations

From the Ground Up: Improving Government Performance...

Author: Stephen Kosack ,  Courtney Tolmie
ISBN: 9780815704126
Format: Paperback
$44.99

This book is based on a simple concept: no one is in a better position to hold a government accountable than those...  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

The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our...  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 >>

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 >>

The Converging World: How one community's path to zero waste is helping save our planet

The Converging World: How one community's path to zero...

Author: John Pontin
ISBN: 9780749929596
Format: Paperback
$44.75

A revolutionary solution to global warming - that's already working  Read More >>

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 >>

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

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

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 >>

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 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 >>

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