Poverty & unemployment books

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Better a Hundred Friends than a Hundred Rubles?: Social Networks in Transition - The Kyrgyz Republic

Better a Hundred Friends than a Hundred Rubles?: Social...

Author: Kathleen Kuehnast ,  Nora Dudwick
ISBN: 9780821358986
Format: Paperback
$23.95

Examines the impact of economic transition and poverty on social networks in the Central Asian country of the Kyrgyz...  Read More >>

Mind, Heart and Soul in the Fight Against Poverty

Mind, Heart and Soul in the Fight Against Poverty

Author: Katherine Marshall ,  Lucy Keough
ISBN: 9780821358689
Format: Paperback
$46.95

The world of religion has been unacknowledged and often unseen by many development practitioners. This work explores...  Read More >>

Trade Policy and Global Poverty

Trade Policy and Global Poverty

Author: William Cline
ISBN: 9780881323658
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This study shows how changes in trade policies in the United States and other industrial countries could help reduce...  Read More >>

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Author: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis ,  Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
ISBN: 9781419305078
Format: Audio
$79.17

Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages. Social critic Barbara Ehrenreich joined them, moving into a...  Read More >>

Organization and Financing of Hospital Care for Indigents in South Florida

Organization and Financing of Hospital Care for Indigents...

Author: Catherine A. Jackson ,  Amanda Beatty
ISBN: 9780833035110
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Care for the unisured is a county responsibility in Florida.  Read More >>

Fighting Poverty in the Us and Europe: A World of Difference

Fighting Poverty in the Us and Europe: A World of Difference...

Author: Alesina ,  Glaeser
ISBN: 9780199267668
Format: Hardback
$85.95

Based on a systematic analysis of national data, the authors describe just how much US and Europe differ in their...  Read More >>

Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor

Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor

Author: Louise B. Simmons
ISBN: 9780765613011
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume analyses poverty and welfare reform within a context of low-wage work and the contours of the labour...  Read More >>

Poverty and Schooling in the U.S.: Contexts and Consequences

Poverty and Schooling in the U.S.: Contexts and Consequences...

Author: Sue Books
ISBN: 9780805851939
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Poverty is an educational issue because it affects children's physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Especially...  Read More >>

The right use of money

The right use of money

Author: David Darton
ISBN: 9781847425980
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

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Poverty and Schooling in the U.S.: Contexts and Consequences

Poverty and Schooling in the U.S.: Contexts and Consequences...

Author: Sue Books
ISBN: 9780805838930
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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How the Other Half Lives

How the Other Half Lives

Author: Jacob A. Riis
ISBN: 9781419124761
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Income Support Systems for the Unemployed: Issues and Options

Income Support Systems for the Unemployed: Issues and...

Author: Milan Vodopivec ,  Dhushyanth Raju
ISBN: 9780821357613
Format: Paperback
$52.80

This title provides an overview of the income support systems of many developing countries and reviews their performance....  Read More >>

Empowering Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction

Empowering Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil...

Author: Diana Mitlin ,  David Satterthwaite
ISBN: 9781844071012
Format: Paperback
$131.87

With the rapid growth in urban poverty in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, most cities have 30 to 60 per cent of...  Read More >>

Empowering Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction

Empowering Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil...

Author: Diana Mitlin ,  David Satterthwaite
ISBN: 9781844071005
Format: Hardback
$79.99

With the rapid growth in urban poverty in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, most cities have 30 to 60 per cent of...  Read More >>

Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the Poverty of Policy

Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the Poverty of Policy...

Author: Philip Kretsedemas ,  Ana Aparicio
ISBN: 9780275978730
Format: Hardback
$140.00

As the essays reveal, reform laws have increased the social isolation of poor immigrant households and discouraged...  Read More >>

Poverty and Exclusion in a Global World

Poverty and Exclusion in a Global World

Author: A. Bhalla ,  F. Lapeyre
ISBN: 9781403906199
Format: Hardback
$169.00

This volume looks at the three dimensions of social exclusion: economic, social and political. Exclusion is analyzed...  Read More >>

Making it work: The keys to success for young people living independently

Making it work: The keys to success for young people...

Author: Jamie Harding
ISBN: 9781847425942
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

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Giving Alms No Charity

Giving Alms No Charity

Author: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9781419121814
Format: Paperback
$42.11

The consequence of this was, as in all tyrannies and persecutions it is, the people fled and scatter'd themselves...  Read More >>

Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam

Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam...

Author: David Dollar ,  Paul Glewwe
ISBN: 9780821355435
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Macroeconomic and household survey data from Vietnam is used to examine how it has transformed itself from one of...  Read More >>

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