Poverty & unemployment books

Jeffrey Sachs, world renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis, here draws on his twenty-five...  Read More >>

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With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty...  Read More >>

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Brings together the plans for reducing financial poverty in the United States through cash transfers. This volume...  Read More >>

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Argues that a just international economy would be one that is inclusive, participatory, and welfare-enhancing for...  Read More >>

There is a growing realization that business development is the most effective weapon in fighting world poverty....  Read More >>

Closing the Food Gap tells the story of how we get our food: from poor people at food pantries or bodegas and convenience...  Read More >>

This book reviews the progress, prospects and challenges of meeting the millennium development goals (MDGs) in Africa....  Read More >>

Uncle Sam’s Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the...  Read More >>

Brazil is a country of sharp disparities. The gap between the richest and the poorest is one of the largest in the...  Read More >>

UN publication sales number E.06.III.B.5. It is produced in association with the Regional Energy Programme for Poverty...  Read More >>

Study on poverty and it's debate in the Netherlands. Floris Noordhoff intends to surpass the dichotomy between structuralist/individualist...  Read More >>

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Maps child deprivation at municipal level, in order to inform local level policy and intervention in South Africa....  Read More >>

While poverty persists as a major social problem, Canadians are increasingly framing their concerns over poverty...  Read More >>

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The main goal of the OSSREA project on Poverty Reduction Strategies in sub-Saharan Africa, from which this book...  Read More >>

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This book explores trends of inequality and poverty in China, identifies their causes and assesses their consequences,...  Read More >>

Welfare to work programmes aim to assist the long-term unemployed in finding work; increasing labour market flexibility,...  Read More >>

This book distinguishes the types of poverty and deepens readers understanding of the structural features and constraints...  Read More >>

A National Book Award-winning author travels the globe and meets with impoverished individuals where they live to...  Read More >>