Poverty & unemployment books

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The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London 1885-1914

The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London 1885-1914...
Author: Marc Brodie ISBN: 9786610757749 Format: Electronic book text	$583.81
Victorian 'East-Enders' were not as poor, jingoistic, anti-immigrant or politically Conservative as they are usually... Read More >>

Improving the Lives of the Poor by Investing in Cities: An Update on the Performance of the World Bank's Urban Portfolio

Improving the Lives of the Poor by Investing in Cities:...
Author: Roy Gilbert ISBN: 9780821355404 Format: Paperback	$58.08
Cities are home to 525 million poor people, and the World Bank makes substantial investments in developing country... Read More >>

One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All

One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects...
Author: Mark Robert Rank (Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University) ISBN: 9780195101683 Format: Hardback	$81.95
Despite its enormous wealth, the United States leads the industrialized world in poverty. This book unravels this... Read More >>

Patterns of poverty across Europe

Patterns of poverty across Europe
Author: Richard Berthoud (Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex) ISBN: 9781861345745 Format: Paperback	$41.95
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Poverty and Small-scale Fisheries in West Africa

Poverty and Small-scale Fisheries in West Africa
Author: Arthur E. Neiland , Christophe Béné ISBN: 9781402018886 Format: Hardback	$198.00
Attempts to examine the issue of poverty in small-scale fisheries from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book... Read More >>

Resisting Marginalization: Unemployment Experience and Social Policy in the European Union

Resisting Marginalization: Unemployment Experience and...
Author: Duncan Gallie (, Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780199271856 Format: Paperback	$125.95
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Resisting Marginalization: Unemployment Experience and Social Policy in the European Union

Resisting Marginalization: Unemployment Experience and...
Author: Duncan Gallie (, Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780199271849 Format: Hardback	$269.00
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Defining an Agenda for Poverty Reduction Vol 2: Conference Proceedings and Papers

Defining an Agenda for Poverty Reduction Vol 2: Conference...
Author: Isabel Ortiz ISBN: 9789715614740 Format: Paperback	$39.60
Citing specific examples of positive social development and protection programs in Asia, this collection of papers... Read More >>

Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States and Western Europe

Social Citizenship and Workfare in the United States...
Author: Joel F Handler (UCLA University of California Los Angeles UCLA UCLA) ISBN: 9781299399464 Format: Electronic book text	$396.00
This book compares workfare policies in the United States and 'active labor policies' in Western Europe that are... Read More >>

Inequality, Growth, and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization

Inequality, Growth, and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization...
Author: Giovanni Andrea Cornia (, University of Florence) ISBN: 9780199271412 Format: Hardback	$281.00
Based on a review of relevant literature and an econometric analysis of inequality indexes, this volume provides... Read More >>

Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia

Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia...
Author: Melissa L. Caldwell ISBN: 9780520238763 Format: Paperback	$57.95
An ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world. Focuses on the everyday operations... Read More >>

Somewhere Every Day

Somewhere Every Day
Author: Verne Patten ISBN: 9780595314041 Format: Paperback	$57.95
Author Verne Patten was born the month the huge stock market crash of 1929 occurred, which started the worst seven... Read More >>

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

Empowering Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil...
Author: Diana Mitlin (University of Manchester, UK) , David Satterthwaite (International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK) ISBN: 9781280474965 Format: Electronic book text	$463.48
This volume - the follow-up to Squatter Citizen - goes beyond conventional, official definitions based only on income... Read More >>

Voices of the Poor in Colombia: Strengthening Livelihoods, Families, and Communities

Voices of the Poor in Colombia: Strengthening Livelihoods,...
Author: Jairo A Arboleda , Professor Patti L Petesch ISBN: 9781280084706 Format: Undefined	$52.75
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Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work: One State's Successful Experiment

Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work: One State's Successful...
Author: Dave Hage ISBN: 9780816640942 Format: Paperback	$35.95
A revealing account of Minnesota's groundbreaking antipoverty program One of the most controversial and divisive... Read More >>

Poverty, Growth and Institutions in Developing Asia

Poverty, Growth and Institutions in Developing Asia...
Author: Anil B. Deolalikar , Ernesto M. Pernia ISBN: 9781403918062 Format: Hardback	$290.37
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Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Prospects for Pro-poor Economic Development

Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Prospects for Pro-poor...
Author: Anthony Shorrocks (, Director, World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University) , Rolph van der Hoeven (, Manager, Technical Secretariat, World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, International Labour Organization) ISBN: 9780199268658 Format: Hardback	$246.00
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Free Trade: Myth, Reality and Alternatives

Free Trade: Myth, Reality and Alternatives
Author: Graham Dunkley ISBN: 9781856498623 Format: Hardback	$170.00
An introduction to the orthodox doctrine of free trade as good for development. Read More >>

Service Provision for the Poor: Public and Private Sector Cooperation

Service Provision for the Poor: Public and Private Sector...
Author: Gudrun Kochendorfer-Lucius , Boris Pleskovic ISBN: 9780821356166 Format: Paperback	$58.08
A compilation of articles presented at the 2002 Berlin Workshop, this is the fifth in a series intended to provide... Read More >>

Service Provision for the Poor: Public and Private Sector

Service Provision for the Poor: Public and Private Sector...
Author: World Bank The ISBN: 9781280084966 Format: Undefined	$79.15
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Free Trade: Myth, Reality and Alternatives

Free Trade: Myth, Reality and Alternatives
Author: Graham Dunkley ISBN: 9781856498630 Format: Paperback	$69.99
An introduction to the orthodox doctrine of free trade as good for development. Read More >>

Structural Adjustment: The SAPRI Report: The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis, Poverty and Inequality

Structural Adjustment: The SAPRI Report: The Policy...
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 9781842773895 Format: Paperback	$69.99
A critique of structural adjustment policies in developing countries. Read More >>

Structural Adjustment: The SAPRI Report: The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis, Poverty and Inequality

Structural Adjustment: The SAPRI Report: The Policy...
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 9781842773888 Format: Hardback	$327.23
A critique of structural adjustment policies in developing countries. Read More >>

Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor

Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor
Author: Louise B. Simmons ISBN: 9780765613004 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This volume analyses poverty and welfare reform within a context of low-wage work and the contours of the labour... Read More >>

Down and Out in Early America

Down and Out in Early America
Author: Billy G. Smith (Michael P. Malone Professor of History, Montana State University) ISBN: 9780271023175 Format: Paperback	$79.07
It has often been said that early America was the ""best poor man's country in the world."" After all, wasn't there... Read More >>

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