Poverty & unemployment books

Basic economic security is an idea whose time has come. In this wide-ranging book, the authors make a compelling...  Read More >>

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This classic text presents Blair's Beveridge Lecture alongside the views of some of Britain's foremost policy analysts...  Read More >>

This ""New York Times"" Notable Book of the Year got its beginnings in the depths of Grand Central Terminal, where...  Read More >>

A report that presents critical new evidence on the size of the health gap, and the extent to which the gap is widening....  Read More >>

What obligation do the world's wealthy people have to ensure that the world's poor achieve a quality of life that...  Read More >>

Poverty is not a state of nature, but, as Stepanek shows, can be ascribed to manmade institutions that reflect self-serving...  Read More >>

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Although poverty is one of the most serious issues facing the world's population, finding statistical information...  Read More >>

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The relationship between the homeless and the social service community marks a border where the disenfranchised...  Read More >>

Beginning this year, federal payment recipients will receive their government benefits through electronic funds...  Read More >>

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Global Transition is a study that analyses the problems and prospects of the Third World by building on the theoretical...  Read More >>

In a forward looking appraisal of the welfare state, this text examines such issues as: the current dynamics of...  Read More >>

In a forward looking appraisal of the welfare state, this text examines such issues as: the current dynamics of...  Read More >>

The Poverty of Nations demonstrates that poverty remains a universal phenomenon, even as most parts of the world...  Read More >>

This text examines the way economic deprivation damages children at all stages of their development. Developmental...  Read More >>

A fiercely critical study of Western aid  Read More >>

Presents Blair's Beveridge Lecture alongside the views of some of Britain's foremost policy analysts and commentators....  Read More >>

Homelessness is now a much greater problem than twenty years ago. In Britain today around half-a-million homeless...  Read More >>

This is a revised edition of a seminal work on the nature of underdevelopment. It includes a new foreword and appendixes...  Read More >>

This volume looks at underdevelopment in plantation economies of the Third World.  Read More >>