Poverty & unemployment books

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Development and Disparotoes: Experience from Southern India

Development and Disparotoes: Experience from Southern...
Author: Kalipada Deb ISBN: 9788170336723 Format: Hardback	$110.88
The independent India of 1947 was steeped in poverty, ignorance and squalor. The task before the government was... Read More >>

How the Other Half Lives; Studies Among the Tenements of New York, by Jacob A. Riis; With Illustrations Chiefly from Photographs Taken by the Author.

How the Other Half Lives; Studies Among the Tenements...
Author: Jacob A Riis ISBN: 9781418171490 Format: Hardback	$105.47
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Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World

Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing...
Author: Nora Claudia Lustig ISBN: 9780815753216 Format: Paperback	$52.99
The poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks. They have little or no access to... Read More >>

Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success

Managing to Make It: Urban Families and Adolescent Success...
Author: Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. , Thomas D. Cook ISBN: 9780226273938 Format: Paperback	$61.95
Based on over 500 interviews/case studies of families in inner-city Philadelphia, this text reveals how parents... Read More >>

The Public Assault on America's Children: Poverty, Violence and Juvenile Injustice

The Public Assault on America's Children: Poverty, Violence...
Author: Valerie Polakow , Jonathan Kozol ISBN: 9780807739839 Format: Paperback	$52.80
Does society care about its children? This work aims to offer a provocative and in-depth examination of violence... Read More >>

A Poverty of Imagination: Bootstrap Capitalism, Sequel to Welfare Reform

A Poverty of Imagination: Bootstrap Capitalism, Sequel...
Author: David Stoesz ISBN: 9780299169541 Format: Paperback	$40.70
Tracing the roots of recent US reforms to the early days of the war on poverty, this work describes a social welfare... Read More >>

Poverty, Ethnicity, and Gender in Eastern Europe During the Market Transition

Poverty, Ethnicity, and Gender in Eastern Europe During...
Author: Rebecca J. Emigh , Ivan Szelenyi ISBN: 9780275968816 Format: Hardback	$140.00
This volume offers an examination of the nature of poverty and its relationship to gender and ethnicity in five... Read More >>

Our Dream: A World Free of Poverty

Our Dream: A World Free of Poverty
Author: Sandra Granzow , World Bank ISBN: 9780195216042 Format: Hardback	$61.95
A photo book that opens with an introduction by World Bank Group president James D. Wolfensohn. It includes real... Read More >>

Poverty, Inequality and Health: An International Perspective

Poverty, Inequality and Health: An International Perspective...
Author: David Leon (Professor of Epidemiology and Co-director of European Health Societies in Transition, Professor of Epidemiology and Co-director of European Health Societies in Transition) , Gill Walt (Reader in Health Policy, Reader in Health Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) ISBN: 9780192631961 Format: Paperback	$144.95
Poverty, inequality and health is a topic of public health significance. This book brings together a group of experts... Read More >>

Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities

Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals...
Author: Ruby K Payne, PhD ISBN: 9781929229697 Format: Paperback	$66.00
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Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues

Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and...
Author: National Research Council , National Research Committee on National Statistics ISBN: 9781280184253 Format: Electronic book text	$155.76
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Forschungseinrichtungen in Der Agglomeration Wien: Stellung Im Innovationsprozess Und Einbindung in Innovative Netzwerke

Forschungseinrichtungen in Der Agglomeration Wien: Stellung...
Author: Walter Rohn ISBN: 9783700128984 Format: Paperback	$23.76
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A Poverty of Imagination: Bootstrap Capitalism, Sequel to Welfare Reform

A Poverty of Imagination: Bootstrap Capitalism, Sequel...
Author: David Stoesz ISBN: 9780299169503 Format: Hardback	$101.20
Tracing the roots of recent US reforms to the early days of the war on poverty, this work describes a social welfare... Read More >>

Income Maintenance Policy

Income Maintenance Policy
Author: Michael Hill ISBN: 9781840643251 Format: Hardback	$609.90
This authoritative collection, which includes a new introduction surveying the fields, contains key contributions... Read More >>

Sistemas de Informacion Para La Empresa

Sistemas de Informacion Para La Empresa
Author: ISBN: 9781282574700 Format: Electronic book text	$171.60
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Remnants of Nation: On Poverty Narratives by Women

Remnants of Nation: On Poverty Narratives by Women
Author: Roxanne Rimstead ISBN: 9781282037366 Format: Electronic book text	$215.42
The Remnants of Nation is a ground breaking book that introduces a new genre called 'poverty narratives' to study... Read More >>

Getting the Measure of Poverty: The Early Legacy of Seebohm Rowntree

Getting the Measure of Poverty: The Early Legacy of...
Author: Jonathan Bradshaw , Roy Sainsbury ISBN: 9780754612896 Format: Hardback	$305.00
A collection of papers with a historical theme, representing a fundamental review of 'A Study of Town Life' and... Read More >>

Geographical Targeting for Poverty Alleviation: Methodology and Applications

Geographical Targeting for Poverty Alleviation: Methodology...
Author: World Bank , David Bigman ISBN: 9780821346259 Format: Hardback	$61.95
'..in many developing countries, there are large differences in economic conditions and the standard of living between... Read More >>

From Good Ma to Welfare Queen: A Genealogy of the Poor Woman in American Literature, Photography and Culture

From Good Ma to Welfare Queen: A Genealogy of the Poor...
Author: Vivyan C. Adair ISBN: 9780815336518 Format: Hardback	$263.87
This study explores literary, photographic and cultural representations of the poor American woman, in order to... Read More >>

Lives On the Line: American Families and the Struggle to Make Ends Meet

Lives On the Line: American Families and the Struggle...
Author: J. Lawrence Aber , Martha Shirk ISBN: 9780813338200 Format: Paperback	$32.99
This landmark book examines the most urgent social problem facing us today: the welfare of America's children. Read More >>

Basic Education at a Distance: World Review of Distance Education and Open Learning: Volume 2

Basic Education at a Distance: World Review of Distance...
Author: Jo Bradley , Chris Yates ISBN: 9780415237741 Format: Paperback	$48.99
This book assesses the impact and effect of the experience of basic education at a distance all over the world and... Read More >>

Basic Education at a Distance: World Review of Distance Education and Open Learning: Volume 2

Basic Education at a Distance: World Review of Distance...
Author: Jo Bradley , Chris Yates ISBN: 9780415237734 Format: Hardback	$101.00
This book assesses the impact and effect of the experience of basic education at a distance all over the world and... Read More >>

Voices of the poor: crying out for change

Voices of the poor: crying out for change
Author: Deepa Narayan , World Bank ISBN: 9780195216028 Format: Paperback	$39.60
A multi-country research initiative to understand poverty from the eyes of the poor, the ""Voices of the Poor""... Read More >>

Poverty and Christianity

Poverty and Christianity
Author: Michael H. Taylor ISBN: 9780334028147 Format: Paperback	$52.80
Michael Taylor spent 12 years of his life as director of Christian Aid, during which time he came face to face with... Read More >>

Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy

Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics...
Author: Martin Gilens ISBN: 9780226293653 Format: Paperback	$49.95
Drawing on surveys of public attitudes and analyses of more than 40 years of television and news-magazine stories... Read More >>

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