Poverty & unemployment books

Half of the world's population has never made or received a phone call and perhaps the same half lives on less than...  Read More >>

This book explores the links between bushmeat and livelihoods in Africa, with a focus on the human dimension of...  Read More >>

Less-favoured areas with limited agricultural potential or difficult access conditions, support 40 percent of the...  Read More >>

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The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy...  Read More >>

Explores the growing awareness in engineering of the profession’s responsibility towards the environment and the...  Read More >>

Aims to promote the effective use of Small Area Estimation poverty maps in policy making. This volume presents a...  Read More >>

Brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering a vast...  Read More >>

Says that policies aimed at stimulating growth in poor regions should be complemented by more direct anti-poverty...  Read More >>

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Late 19th century Britain saw the privileged classes forsake society balls and gatherings to turn their resources...  Read More >>

Late 19th century Britain saw the privileged classes forsake society balls and gatherings to turn their resources...  Read More >>

Why hasn't the poverty rate fallen in four decades, despite society's massive and varied efforts? This book proposes...  Read More >>

In this issue, we focus on the Democratic Republic of Congo, often referred to as the DRC, and formerly known variously...  Read More >>

Using ethnographic and participatory methods, this timely volume calls for an exploration of ‘unseen’ social capital...  Read More >>

Edited papers from an international conference at the University of Trier, 2003.  Read More >>

Unemployment among black Americans is twice that of whites. Myriad theories have been put forward to explain the...  Read More >>

Presents fifteen essays by academics about the severe poverty that afflicts billions of human lives. These essays...  Read More >>

Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect...  Read More >>

Proposes cost-effective policy and technical interventions aimed at abating the cost of environmental degradation...  Read More >>

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Using data for India and Peru, the authors compare and contrast four different approaches to poverty analysis at...  Read More >>

Collected here in one volume are fifteen cutting-edge essays by leading academics which together clarify and defend...  Read More >>

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