Poverty & unemployment books

How can technology best be harnessed to help lift the world's poor out of poverty? This conference volume includes...  Read More >>

This title, aimed at undergraduate and secondary school readers, describes how poor people in developing countries...  Read More >>

This reader provides two centuries of historical context to debates on health inequality. Extracts from classic...  Read More >>

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An interdisciplinary study of public attitudes towards the poor in Britain between 1790 and 1835. Sandra Sherman...  Read More >>

Treating poverty not simply as a theme in literature but as a force that in fact shapes the texts themselves, Rimstead...  Read More >>

The aim of this report is to draw lessons from Jordan's recent experience in policy design improvements of poverty...  Read More >>

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This book breaks the complex topic of homelessness into key elements, examining the roots of the problem, programmes...  Read More >>

The archives from the administration of the English poor law before 1834 include letters to the overseers of the...  Read More >>

This book breaks the complex topic of homelessness into key elements, examining the roots of the problem, programmes...  Read More >>

Explores the link between human rights law and the eradication of poverty, and how the former is a prerequisite...  Read More >>

Based upon the fact that poverty and inequality are on the increase in developing countries like Egypt, this work...  Read More >>

The last decade has witnessed a conspicuous alteration in policies protecting unemployed people in modern welfare...  Read More >>

In his foreword, the president of the World Bank, James D  Read More >>

In his foreword, the president of the World Bank, James D  Read More >>

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The increase in poverty and inequality in the transition countries of Europe and Central Asia over the past decade...  Read More >>

Throughout the 1980s, incomes, living standards and investments in Africa plummeted, while poverty declined in South...  Read More >>

Nandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force.  Read More >>

Nandini Gooptu's magisterial history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force. By focusing on the...  Read More >>

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This compilation focuses on the role of the state in tackling poverty and social exclusion in Southern and Central...  Read More >>

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