Poverty & unemployment books

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Low Cost But Acceptable Incomes for Older People: A Minimum Income Standard for Households Aged 65-74 Years in the UK

Low Cost But Acceptable Incomes for Older People: A...

Author: Hermione Parker
ISBN: 9781861342140
Format: Paperback
$94.91

How much does it cost older people living in the UK to reach an acceptable living standard and avoid social exclusion?...  Read More >>

Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries

Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries...

Author: Jeanine Braithwaite ,  Christiaan Grootaert (The World Bank)
ISBN: 9786611366261
Format: Electronic book text
$501.60

This study examines poverty and social assistance in six countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Russia,...  Read More >>

Globalization and Unemployment

Globalization and Unemployment

Author: Helmut M. Wagner
ISBN: 9783540667650
Format: Hardback
$361.68

Globalization and unemployment are two phenomena which are amongst the most widely discussed subjects in the economic...  Read More >>

Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College

Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth...

Author: Sheldon Danziger ,  Jane Waldfogel
ISBN: 9780871548993
Format: Hardback
$105.47

More than ever, the economic health of a country depends upon the skills, knowledge, and capacities of its people....  Read More >>

Bread and Work: The Experience of Unemployment 1918-39

Bread and Work: The Experience of Unemployment 1918-39...

Author: Matt Perry
ISBN: 9780745314815
Format: Paperback
$33.95

Focusing on Britain, Europe and the United States, the author of this book compares and contrasts popular attitudes...  Read More >>

How Societies Learn

How Societies Learn

Author: Daniel Yankelovich ,  Emil Uddhammar
ISBN: 9780765806307
Format: Paperback
$119.00

The theme of Daniel Yankelovich's Zetterberg Lecture is timely and urgent: how do societies learn? We know that...  Read More >>

Waging the Global War on Poverty: Strategies and Case Studies

Waging the Global War on Poverty: Strategies and Case...

Author: Raundi Halvorson-Quevedo ,  Hartman Schneider
ISBN: 9789264171701
Format: Paperback
$107.95

This volume provides a broad overview of general poverty-reduction strategies and objectives. It also presents five...  Read More >>

Violence in Colombia: Building Sustainable Peace and Social Capital

Violence in Colombia: Building Sustainable Peace and...

Author: World Bank Group
ISBN: 9781280004858
Format: Undefined
$47.49

Despite an implied civil turmoil and constant crime and violence, Colombia is nevertheless one of the oldest middle-income...  Read More >>

The Social Control of Cities?: A Comparative Perspective

The Social Control of Cities?: A Comparative Perspective...

Author: Sophie Body-Gendrot (University of Paris)
ISBN: 9780631205210
Format: Paperback
$49.95

* Contemporary advanced societies. * Informed by extensive fieldwork, including interviews with mayors, judges,...  Read More >>

Poverty and Development

Poverty and Development

Author: Tim Allen (Development Studies Institute, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics) ,  Alan Thomas (Centre for Development Studies, Centre for Development Studies, University of Wales Swansea)
ISBN: 9780198776260
Format: Paperback
$198.00

This is the second edition of ""Poverty and Development in the 1990s"". Each chapter introduces the student to a...  Read More >>

The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society

The Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary...

Author: Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France)
ISBN: 9780745615936
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Politicians and state officials are often oblivious to the lives of their citizens. On the other hand, the ordinary...  Read More >>

Nowhere to Grow: Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and Their Families

Nowhere to Grow: Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and...

Author: Les B. Whitbeck ,  Dan R. Hoyt
ISBN: 9780202305837
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Producing Against Poverty: Female and Male Micro-entrepreneurs in Lima, Peru

Producing Against Poverty: Female and Male Micro-entrepreneurs...

Author: Annelou Ypeij
ISBN: 9789053563779
Format: Paperback
$109.56

An in-depth and unique study portraying Third World micro-entrepreneurs in their ongoing fight against poverty....  Read More >>

The Underclass

The Underclass

Author: Ken Auletta
ISBN: 9780879519292
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Auletta began with a seemingly simple goal - to find out who, exactly, make up the poorest of the poor, and to trace...  Read More >>

Moldova: Poverty Assessment

Moldova: Poverty Assessment

Author: World Bank Group
ISBN: 9781280005121
Format: Undefined
$47.49

Moldova is having an arduous transition from being a centrally-planned economy to one that is guided by market signals,...  Read More >>

Urban Poverty in Africa: From understanding to alleviation

Urban Poverty in Africa: From understanding to alleviation...

Author: Sue Jones ,  Nici Nelson
ISBN: 9781853394744
Format: Paperback
$63.23

This book looks at the urban poverty debate and brings together contributions from academics, practitioners and...  Read More >>

Enterprise in Africa: Between poverty and growth

Enterprise in Africa: Between poverty and growth

Author: Kenneth King ,  Simon McGrath
ISBN: 9781853394782
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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Employment revival in Europe: labour market success in Austria, Denmark, Ireland and the Netherlands

Employment revival in Europe: labour market success...

Author: Peter Auer ,  International Labour Office
ISBN: 9789221108412
Format: Paperback
$47.39

A review of the remarkable economic and labour market recovery made by four small European countries: Austria, Denmark,...  Read More >>

Policing Urban Poverty

Policing Urban Poverty

Author: Chris Crowther ,  Jo Campling
ISBN: 9780333748589
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Policing Urban Poverty demonstrates that, since the nineteenth century, a core task of the police has been crime...  Read More >>

Theoretical Perspective on Gender and Development

Theoretical Perspective on Gender and Development

Author: Professor Jane L. Parpart ,  M.Patricia Connelly
ISBN: 9780889369108
Format: Paperback
$58.08

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Urban Housing and Poverty Alleviation in Tanzania

Urban Housing and Poverty Alleviation in Tanzania

Author: Milton Makongoro Mahanga
ISBN: 9789976603439
Format: Paperback
$110.75

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