Poverty & unemployment books

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Urban Livelihoods: A People-centred Approach to Reducing Poverty

Urban Livelihoods: A People-centred Approach to Reducing...

Author: Tony Lloyd-Jones ,  Carole Rakodi (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781853838613
Format: Paperback
$131.00

One important approach to poverty reduction in developing countries is to encourage sustainable livelihoods for...  Read More >>

Trade Liberalization and Poverty: A Handbook

Trade Liberalization and Poverty: A Handbook

Author: Neil McCulloch ,  L. Alan Winters
ISBN: 9781898128625
Format: Paperback
$76.33

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Urban Livelihoods: A People-centred Approach to Reducing Poverty

Urban Livelihoods: A People-centred Approach to Reducing...

Author: Carole Rakodi ,  Tony Lloyd-Jones
ISBN: 9781853838606
Format: Hardback
$359.04

One important approach to poverty reduction in developing countries is to encourage sustainable livelihoods for...  Read More >>

Accounting for Poverty in Infrastructure Reform: Learning from Latin America's Experience

Accounting for Poverty in Infrastructure Reform: Learning...

Author: Quentin Wodon ,  Vivien Foster
ISBN: 9780821350393
Format: Paperback
$34.95

An exploration of the link between infrastructure reform and poverty in Latin America. It stresses why and how,...  Read More >>

Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe

Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe

Author: Matt Barnes ,  Christopher Heady
ISBN: 9781840643756
Format: Hardback
$241.35

There are estimated to be almost 60 million people living in poverty throughout the European Union. In this way...  Read More >>

Rural homelessness: Issues, experiences and policy responses

Rural homelessness: Issues, experiences and policy responses...

Author: Paul Cloke ,  Paul Milbourne
ISBN: 9781847425430
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

Explores the shifting policy context of homelessness and social exclusion in relation to rural areas in the UK and...  Read More >>

In the Name of the Poor: Contesting Political Space for Poverty Reduction

In the Name of the Poor: Contesting Political Space...

Author: Lars Engberg-Pedersen ,  Neil Webster
ISBN: 9781856499590
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Current development discourse on poverty reduction mainly emphasizes the respective roles of the state and the market....  Read More >>

The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics and Impoverished People in the United States

The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics...

Author: Judith G. Goode ,  Jeff Maskovsky
ISBN: 9780814731161
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Repudiating the fallacy of welfare state dependency, the contributors to these studies seek to reveal the true impact...  Read More >>

Voices of the Poor

Voices of the Poor

Author: Deepa Narayan ,  Michael Walton
ISBN: 9780195216035
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A multi-country research initiative to understand poverty from the eyes of the poor. The ""Voices of the Poor""...  Read More >>

The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics and Impoverished People in the United States

The New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics...

Author: Judith G. Goode ,  Jeff Maskovsky
ISBN: 9780814731154
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Repudiating the fallacy of welfare state dependency, the contributors to these studies seek to reveal the true impact...  Read More >>

Visions of Poverty: Welfare Policy and Political Imagination

Visions of Poverty: Welfare Policy and Political Imagination...

Author: Robert Asen
ISBN: 9780870136009
Format: Hardback
$131.87

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Social assistance dynamics in Europe: National and local poverty regimes

Social assistance dynamics in Europe: National and local...

Author: Chiara Saraceno
ISBN: 9781861343147
Format: Paperback
$61.95

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VOICES of the POOR-from MANY LANDS NEW ED

VOICES of the POOR-from MANY LANDS NEW ED

Author: World Bank Group ,  Michael Walton
ISBN: 9780821350492
Format: Paperback
$38.95

A portrait of poverty-stricken life explaining the constraints poor people face to escape from poverty in a way...  Read More >>

Voices of the Poor

Voices of the Poor

Author: World Bank Group
ISBN: 9780821351277
Format: Paperback
$101.20

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Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents

Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor...

Author: Loretta Brunious
ISBN: 9780415932592
Format: Paperback
$124.00

This book examines how black children, who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality,...  Read More >>

Visions of Poverty: Welfare Policy and Political Imagination

Visions of Poverty: Welfare Policy and Political Imagination...

Author: Robert Asen
ISBN: 9780870136061
Format: Paperback
$65.87

To understand the welfare policy debates of the last half of the 20th century, the various images of poor people...  Read More >>

Moving Up and Out: Poverty, Education & Single Parent Family

Moving Up and Out: Poverty, Education & Single Parent...

Author: Lori Holyfield ,  Hillary Rodham Clinton
ISBN: 9781566399159
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Single parent families in the United States have almost tripled in the past few decades. A huge majority of these...  Read More >>

Measurement and Meaning: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods for the Analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Latin America

Measurement and Meaning: Combining Quantitative and...

Author: Quentin Wodon ,  Estanislao Gacitua-Mario
ISBN: 9780821350546
Format: Paperback
$23.95

This report presents three case studies drawn from World Bank work in Latin America. Each of these studies - one...  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: 9780807742631
Format: Hardback
$129.23

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

Six Billion and Counting: Population Growth and Food Security in the 21st Century

Six Billion and Counting: Population Growth and Food...

Author: Klaus M. Leisinger ,  Karin Schmitt
ISBN: 9780896297050
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Despite advances in family health and planning, the global population has continued to grow by around 80 million...  Read More >>

Through My Own Eyes: Single Mothers and the Cultures of Poverty

Through My Own Eyes: Single Mothers and the Cultures...

Author: Susan D. Holloway ,  Bruce Fuller
ISBN: 9780674001800
Format: Paperback
$109.95

Through My Own Eyes offers a firsthand look at how single American mothers with the slimmest of resources manage...  Read More >>

Land Reform and Peasant Livelihoods: The social dynamics of rural poverty and agrarian reform in developing countries

Land Reform and Peasant Livelihoods: The social dynamics...

Author: Krishna Ghimire
ISBN: 9781853395277
Format: Paperback
$84.35

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