Poverty & unemployment books

This title portrays the career of George Edwards, Detroit's visionary police commissioner, whose efforts to bring...  Read More >>

2002 marks the fifth anniversary of federal welfare reform in the US, and politicians and human rights advocates...  Read More >>

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The Government of Tanzania is committed to poverty reduction and the attainment of social and economic development....  Read More >>

The farm crisis of the 1980s was the greatest economic disaster to hit rural America since the Depression. The crisis...  Read More >>

Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Sourcebook is an outcome of World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty,...  Read More >>

In 1994, Linda Falkner began calling homeless shelters and mental health programs, trying to find help for her homeless,...  Read More >>

Considers the poverty and growth experience in six villages in Ethiopia from 1989-1995. It focuses on the linkages...  Read More >>

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Poverty increased in Zimbabwe in all sectors of the economy during the 1990s. This title provides reasons for the...  Read More >>

Traces the experiences of children from a poor inner-urban neighbourhood - half of them from Bangladeshi families...  Read More >>

Can governments do anything right? This work argues that federal, state, and local governments can and should do...  Read More >>

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In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the U.S. remains high relative...  Read More >>

An assessment of participatory research in poverty reduction work. It shows how participatory research has affected...  Read More >>

The use of participatory research techniques to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives...  Read More >>

This study was conducted in 1930 in Austria during the depression, and examines the prolonged effects of unemployment...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the externally driven difficulties of service workers and agencies in shaping services-such...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the externally driven difficulties of service workers and agencies in shaping services-such...  Read More >>

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Jointly, the World Bank and the government of Albania undertook an assessment of poverty, conducted in a qualitative...  Read More >>

Sabina Alkire shows how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen's capability approach can be coherently---and...  Read More >>