Poverty & unemployment books

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Stories of people who pulled out of poverty thanks in part to the aid of microgrants.  Read More >>

This book builds the case for a comprehensive social security system to be developed in all countries – to eliminate...  Read More >>

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A series that focuses on the combined pressures of population growth and dwindling resources on our planet. Through...  Read More >>

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A report that discusses the opportunities and challenges for the Caribbean associated with trade liberalization...  Read More >>

Paul Polak, whose organization International Development Enterprises (IDE) has directly helped over 17 million people...  Read More >>

Paul Polak, whose organization International Development Enterprises (IDE) has directly helped over 17 million people...  Read More >>

"Poverty declined significantly in the decade after Lyndon Johnson's 1964 declaration of ""War on Poverty."" Dramatically...  Read More >>

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This searing yet beautiful firsthand account of the life and working the conditions of industrial workers in the...  Read More >>

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This volume is a terrific way to ease readers into the complicated topic of the welfare system. A wide range of...  Read More >>

Climate change threatens all people, but its adverse effects will be felt most acutely by the world's poor. Absent...  Read More >>

Partout dans le monde, des gouvernements et des organismes de d veloppement s emploient, depuis plus de deux d cennies,...  Read More >>

This book details an operational methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty. It develops the rationale of...  Read More >>

In this book, legendary marketing expert Kotler and social marketing innovator Lee consider poverty from a radically...  Read More >>

Provides insights into the evaluative techniques necessary for creating appropriate and effective policies and programs...  Read More >>

The federal government may have failed the poor, argues organiser and ACORN founder Wade Rathke, but there is another...  Read More >>

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family...  Read More >>

Studies of medieval poverty tend to focus on a few works, particularly Piers Plowman and related texts, and on the...  Read More >>

Transnational corporations are one of the most important actors in the global economy, occupying a more powerful...  Read More >>

Tells the story of Pomatambo, a village in one of the poorest parts of Peru's highlands. This book presents the...  Read More >>

India has experienced accelerating growth in the last decade, yet why do millions of people remain mired in poverty?...  Read More >>