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2004 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness: The World Bank's Contributions to Poverty Reduction

2004 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness: The...

Author: Christopher D. Gerrard
ISBN: 9780821363034
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Looking at the growth and poverty reduction experience of client countries, this review uses the key elements of...  Read More >>

Reducing Poverty, Building Peace

Reducing Poverty, Building Peace

Author: Coralie Bryant ,  Christina Kappaz
ISBN: 9781565492059
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Reducing Poverty, Building Peace looks at poverty from many sides of the spectrum: domestic and global, rich and...  Read More >>

Changing Paths: International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion

Changing Paths: International Development and the New...

Author: Peter P. Houtzager ,  Michael Peter Moore
ISBN: 9780472030972
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Explores how the world's disadvantaged may be enabled to claim a greater share of material wealth  Read More >>

Analyzing the Distributional Impact of Reforms, Volume One: A Practitioner's Guide to Trade, Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy, Utility Provision, Agricultural Markets, Land Policy, and Education

Analyzing the Distributional Impact of Reforms, Volume...

Author: Aline Coudouel ,  Stefano Paternostro
ISBN: 9780821361818
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Providing an overview of the specific issues arising in the analysis of the distributional impacts of policy and...  Read More >>

The Urban Poor in Latin America

The Urban Poor in Latin America

Author: Marianne Fay
ISBN: 9780821360699
Format: Paperback
$38.95

Argues that the causes of poverty, the nature of deprivation, and the policy levers to fight poverty are largely...  Read More >>

Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives...

Author: Senior Adviser Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Deepa Narayan (World Bank)
ISBN: 9781280145353
Format: Undefined
$79.17

This title builds on the Empowerment Sourcebook (2002) by addressing the question of how to measure empowerment....  Read More >>

Creating Fiscal Space for Poverty Reduction in Ecuador: A Fiscal Management and Public Expenditure Review

Creating Fiscal Space for Poverty Reduction in Ecuador:...

Author: World Bank
ISBN: 9780821362563
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Ecuador's impressive fiscal performance of 2003 is encouraging, but fragile. Ecuador's fiscal stress and poor budget...  Read More >>

The Cost of Being Poor: A Comparative Study of Life in Poor Urban Neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana

The Cost of Being Poor: A Comparative Study of Life...

Author: Sandra L. Barnes ,  John Clifford Green
ISBN: 9780791464687
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Looks at the daily lives of poor people to demonstrate that the poor pay more than others, by both monetary and...  Read More >>

The Cost of Being Poor: A Comparative Study of Life in Poor Urban Neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana

The Cost of Being Poor: A Comparative Study of Life...

Author: Sandra L. Barnes
ISBN: 9780791464670
Format: Hardback
$223.08

Looks at the daily lives of poor people to demonstrate that the poor pay more than others, by both monetary and...  Read More >>

Elite Perceptions of Poverty and Inequality

Elite Perceptions of Poverty and Inequality

Author: Elisa Reis ,  Mick Moore
ISBN: 9781842776391
Format: Paperback
$69.99

A systematic study of elite attitudes to poverty in developing countries.  Read More >>

UN Millennium Development Library: Halving Hunger: It Can Be Done

UN Millennium Development Library: Halving Hunger: It...

Author: UN Millennium Project
ISBN: 9781844072200
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical...  Read More >>

The Victorian Workhouse

The Victorian Workhouse

Author: Trevor May
ISBN: 9780747803553
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Whether it was 'the batille', 'the spike', 'the work'us' or simply 'the house', the Victorian workhouse was the...  Read More >>

The Poverty Wars: Reconnecting Research with Reality

The Poverty Wars: Reconnecting Research with Reality...

Author: Peter Saunders
ISBN: 9780868408101
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Poverty Wars argues that as a nation Australia can afford to eliminate financial poverty. It states that the fact...  Read More >>

Elite Perceptions of Poverty and Inequality

Elite Perceptions of Poverty and Inequality

Author: Elisa Reis ,  Mick Moore
ISBN: 9781842776384
Format: Hardback
$300.83

A systematic study of elite attitudes to poverty in developing countries.  Read More >>

The Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative: Findings from Ten Country Case Studies of World Bank and IMF Support

The Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative: Findings...

Author: William G. Battaile
ISBN: 9780821362198
Format: Hardback
$23.95

The Bank and the IMF launched the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) Initiative in 1999 to improve the planning, implementation,...  Read More >>

IMPROVING HEALTH NUTRITION

IMPROVING HEALTH NUTRITION

Author: World Bank Group
ISBN: 9780821361771
Format: Paperback
$30.95

In recent years, the focus in many developing regions is increasingly moving away from communicable disease, where...  Read More >>

Poverty and the Social Context of Sex Workers in Addis Ababa: An Anthropological Perspective

Poverty and the Social Context of Sex Workers in Addis...

Author: Bethlehem Tekola
ISBN: 9781904855675
Format: Paperback
$76.43

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The Urban Poor in Latin America

The Urban Poor in Latin America

Author: Marianne Fay ,  Marianne Fay
ISBN: 9781280221187
Format: Undefined
$79.15

The urbanization of Latin America has also lead to the urbanization of its poor. Today about half of the regions...  Read More >>

International Cooperation in Social Security: How to Cope with Globalisation

International Cooperation in Social Security: How to...

Author: Bea Cantillon ,  Ive Marx
ISBN: 9789050954785
Format: Hardback
$255.42

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Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse: The Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok's Bleakest Slums

Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse: The Battle for...

Author: Joe Maier
ISBN: 9780794602932
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The heartbreaking and heartwarming stories of the life of Father Joe Maier and his nearly 30 years living and working...  Read More >>

India Democracy and Well Being: An Inquiry into the Persistence of Poverty in a Dynamic Democracy

India Democracy and Well Being: An Inquiry into the...

Author: Amarjeet Sinha
ISBN: 9788129106865
Format: Hardback
$64.69

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The Macroeconomics of Development and Poverty Reduction: Strategies Beyond the Washington Consensus

The Macroeconomics of Development and Poverty Reduction:...

Author: Jan Priewe ,  Hansjorg Herr (Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany)
ISBN: 9783832912789
Format: Paperback
$145.20

To reach the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 in developing countries requires first and...  Read More >>

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