Poverty & unemployment books

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Economic Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Developing Countries

Economic Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Developing...
Author: Bob Baulch (University of Sussex, UK) , John Hoddinott (International Food Policy Research Institute, USA) ISBN: 9780714681542 Format: Paperback	$171.60
This collection assembles six country studies which use household panel data to examine the issue of poverty. Read More >>

What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality

What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality...
Author: Benjamin I. Page , James R. Simmons ISBN: 9780226644813 Format: Hardback	$56.95
Can governments do anything right? This work argues that federal, state, and local governments can and should do... Read More >>

America’s Struggle against Poverty in the Twentieth Century: Enlarged Edition

America’s Struggle against Poverty in the Twentieth...
Author: James T. Patterson ISBN: 9780674004344 Format: Paperback	$68.95
This new edition of Patterson’s widely used book carries the story of battles over poverty and social welfare through... Read More >>

The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression

The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare...
Author: Jeff Singleton ISBN: 9780313314001 Format: Hardback	$140.00
As Jeff Singleton shows, the rapid expansion of unemployment relief in the early 1930s generated pressures which... Read More >>

Rural Poverty in Latin America

Rural Poverty in Latin America
Author: R. López , A. Valdés ISBN: 9780333792902 Format: Hardback	$232.85
This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural... Read More >>

Poverty and Welfare in England, 1700–1850: A Regional Perspective

Poverty and Welfare in England, 1700–1850: A Regional...
Author: Steve King , Rebecca Mortimer ISBN: 9780719049408 Format: Paperback	$70.00
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Poverty Among Riches: The Need for Change - Report of the Committee for Development Policy on the Second Session (3-7 April 2000)

Poverty Among Riches: The Need for Change - Report of...
Author: United Nations: Department of Economic and Social Affairs ISBN: 9789211044973 Format: Paperback	$15.95
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Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000

Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's...
Author: Joel Schwartz ISBN: 9780253337719 Format: Hardback	$105.47
Presents a historical and a contemporary study of attempts to promote the self-reliance and prosperity of America's... Read More >>

Umemployment and Public Policy in a Changing Labour Market

Umemployment and Public Policy in a Changing Labour...
Author: Michael White , Michael White ISBN: 9780853746393 Format: Paperback	$52.67
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Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course in the Humanities

Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course in the Humanities...
Author: Earl Shorris ISBN: 9780393320664 Format: Paperback	$39.95
""You've been cheated,"" Earl Shorris tells a classroom of poor people in New York City. Read More >>

Equality

Equality
Author: Alex Callinicos (University of York) ISBN: 9780745623252 Format: Paperback	$32.95
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Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Deregulation, and the Informal Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic

Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Deregulation,...
Author: José Itzigsohn ISBN: 9780271020280 Format: Paperback	$76.43
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Equality

Equality
Author: Alex Callinicos (University of York) ISBN: 9780745623245 Format: Hardback	$103.95
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Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Culturally Diverse Children and Adolescents: Assessment,...
Author: Ian A. Canino , Jeanne Spurlock ISBN: 9781572305830 Format: Hardback	$92.40
This revised second edition offers practical guidelines for mental health professionals working with economically... Read More >>

Someone to Talk To: Care and Control of the Homeless

Someone to Talk To: Care and Control of the Homeless...
Author: Tom Allen ISBN: 9781552660294 Format: Paperback	$26.95
This impassioned account of life on the mean streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside chronicles the grim spirals... Read More >>

Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment

Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers,...
Author: Fred Magdoff , John Bellamy Foster ISBN: 9781583670163 Format: Paperback	$49.99
Reviews the changes in world agriculture today and argues for organic, sustainable solutions to world hunger. Read More >>

Deeper than Debt: Economic globalisation and the poor

Deeper than Debt: Economic globalisation and the poor...
Author: George Ann Potter ISBN: 9781899365463 Format: Paperback	$37.95
This study of debt in poor countries looks at the growing ineqality between rich and poor, the effects of economic... Read More >>

Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food and the Environment

Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers,...
Author: Fred Magdoff , John Bellamy Foster ISBN: 9781583670156 Format: Hardback	$163.00
Reviews the changes in world agriculture today and argues for organic, sustainable solutions to world hunger. Read More >>

Making Transition Work for Everyone: Poverty and Inequality in Europe and Central Asia

Making Transition Work for Everyone: Poverty and Inequality...
Author: World Bank Group , World Bank The ISBN: 9781280098062 Format: Undefined	$79.15
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Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism

Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice...
Author: Patrick Novotny ISBN: 9780275960261 Format: Hardback	$140.00
An analysis of the emerging awareness of environmental problems as they impact the poor, particularly African-American,... Read More >>

Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies

Global Capital, Human Needs and Social Policies
Author: Ian Gough (University of Bath) ISBN: 9786613182289 Format: Electronic book text	$411.84
Can the needs of capital ever be reconciled with the needs of people? To what extent can social policies bridge... Read More >>

How to Get SSI & Social Security Disability: An Insider's Step by Step Guide

How to Get SSI & Social Security Disability: An Insider's...
Author: Mike Davis ISBN: 9780595125746 Format: Paperback	$31.55
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No Excuses: Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools

No Excuses: Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty...
Author: Samuel Casey Carter ISBN: 9780891950905 Format: Paperback	$25.08
This book profiles twenty-one public school principles who rejected the unfortunate, yet prevailing wisdom, that... Read More >>

The Institutional Context of Poverty Eradication in Rural Africa

The Institutional Context of Poverty Eradication in...
Author: Kjell J. Havnevik , E. Sandstrom ISBN: 9789171064608 Format: Paperback	$47.39
In cooperation with the Department of Rural Development Studies of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences... Read More >>

Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America

Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America...
Author: Cynthia M. Duncan , Robert Coles ISBN: 9780300084566 Format: Paperback	$51.48
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