Poverty & unemployment books

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Tourism and Poverty Alleviation

Tourism and Poverty Alleviation

Author: World Tourism Organization
ISBN: 9789284405497
Format: Paperback
$40.92

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Wealth and Poverty in America: A Reader

Wealth and Poverty in America: A Reader

Author: Dalton Conley (New York University)
ISBN: 9780631231806
Format: Paperback
$101.95

The ideologies of equal opportunity and individual responsibility that dominate American culture tend to obscure...  Read More >>

Wealth and Poverty in America: A Reader

Wealth and Poverty in America: A Reader

Author: Dalton Conley (New York University)
ISBN: 9780631231790
Format: Hardback
$278.95

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Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great...

Author: Robert Cohen
ISBN: 9780807854136
Format: Paperback
$60.72

Eleanor Roosevelt was a beloved figure among poor children, who between 1933 and 1941 wrote her thousands of letters...  Read More >>

Lost for Words?: Brazilian Liberationism in the 1990s

Lost for Words?: Brazilian Liberationism in the 1990s...

Author: Goetz Frank Ottmann
ISBN: 9780822941811
Format: Hardback
$158.40

In this text, Goetz Frank Ottmann explores the rise and decline of progressive Catholic grassroots activism and...  Read More >>

Debt Relief for the Poorest Countries

Debt Relief for the Poorest Countries

Author: Yiagadeesen Samy ,  John E. Serieux
ISBN: 9780765801616
Format: Hardback
$284.63

The debt problems of poor countries are receiving unprecedented attention  Read More >>

City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty

City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty...

Author: Ananya Roy
ISBN: 9780816639335
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Uses Calcutta as a site for the exploration of persistent structures of deprivation and want. Housing developments...  Read More >>

Pathways out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families

Pathways out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance...

Author: Sam Daley-Harris
ISBN: 9781565491595
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Understanding Mainland Puerto Rican Pov

Understanding Mainland Puerto Rican Pov

Author: Susan Baker
ISBN: 9781566399708
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Provides an understanding of the impoverishment of Puerto Ricans living on the mainland.  Read More >>

City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty

City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty...

Author: Ananya Roy
ISBN: 9780816639328
Format: Hardback
$186.12

Uses Calcutta as a site for the exploration of persistent structures of deprivation and want. Housing developments...  Read More >>

Biography and social exclusion in Europe: Experiences and life journeys

Biography and social exclusion in Europe: Experiences...

Author: Prue Chamberlayne ,  Michael Rustin
ISBN: 9781847425607
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

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When Did I See You Hungry?

When Did I See You Hungry?

Author: Gerard Thomas Straub
ISBN: 9780867165029
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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Childhood poverty and social exclusion: From a child's perspective

Childhood poverty and social exclusion: From a child's...

Author: Tess Ridge
ISBN: 9781861343628
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Childhood poverty and social exclusion offers a rare and valuable opportunity to understand the issues and concerns...  Read More >>

Causes & Alleviation of Poverty

Causes & Alleviation of Poverty

Author: A F Petrone ,  A.F. Petrone
ISBN: 9781590334461
Format: Hardback
$181.10

It has been said that the poor will always be with us. But that does not mean we are obliged to ignore squalor....  Read More >>

Running in Place: How the Medicaid Model Falls Short, and What to Do about It

Running in Place: How the Medicaid Model Falls Short,...

Author: Eliot Fishman
ISBN: 9780870784774
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Perhaps the most glaring failure of the American public/private health care system is that millions, including many...  Read More >>

Reporting on Income Distribution and Poverty: Perspectives from a German and a European Point of View

Reporting on Income Distribution and Poverty: Perspectives...

Author: Richard Hauser ,  Irene Becker
ISBN: 9783540440642
Format: Hardback
$308.88

Richard Hauser Irene Becker Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, FrankfurtlMain This volume marks the end of a research...  Read More >>

Standards Reform in High-poverty Schools: Managing Conflict and Building Capacity

Standards Reform in High-poverty Schools: Managing Conflict...

Author: Carol A. Barnes ,  Patricia A. Wasley
ISBN: 9780807742624
Format: Paperback
$68.51

This work shows what actually happens when school reform encounters a high-poverty, linguistically diverse school,...  Read More >>

Social Reinsurance: A New Approach to Sustainable Community Health Financing

Social Reinsurance: A New Approach to Sustainable Community...

Author: Alexander S. Preker ,  David M. Dror
ISBN: 9780821350416
Format: Paperback
$61.95

This volume views community-based microinsurance as an incremental first step to improved financial protection and...  Read More >>

World poverty: New policies to defeat an old enemy

World poverty: New policies to defeat an old enemy

Author: Peter Townsend ,  David Gordon
ISBN: 9781861343956
Format: Paperback
$63.95

The study, when published in 2002, received coverage across the globe from Brazil to Greece and attracted the support...  Read More >>

World Poverty: New Policies to Defeat an Old Enemy

World Poverty: New Policies to Defeat an Old Enemy

Author: Peter Townsend ,  David Gordon
ISBN: 9781861343963
Format: Hardback
$261.36

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J.L. Vives: De Subventione Pauperum sive De Humanis Necessitatibus, Libri II: Introduction, Critical Edition, Translation and Notes

J.L. Vives: De Subventione Pauperum sive De Humanis...

Author: Constant Matheeussen ,  Charles Fantazzi
ISBN: 9789004127425
Format: Hardback
$388.08

This work by Spanish humorist and philosopher, Juan Luis Vives, was the first tract of its kind in the West to treat...  Read More >>

Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty

Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's...

Author: Catherine Kingfisher
ISBN: 9780812236682
Format: Hardback
$184.67

Western Welfare in Decline explores the plight of poor single mothers in five English-speaking countries that have...  Read More >>

Our Dream Deferred

Our Dream Deferred

Author: Professor Abebe Zegeye ,  Julia Maxted
ISBN: 9781868882298
Format: Paperback
$108.11

Based on research and the historical and economic dimensions of poverty, this book addresses the question of what...  Read More >>

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