Poverty & unemployment books

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Social Entrepreneurship & Technology as a SOLUTION to Poverty: Peer Lending, Micro finance and Mobile banking all were good till 2015

Social Entrepreneurship & Technology as a SOLUTION to...

Author: Farid Premani
ISBN: 9781518642029
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Peer Lending, Micro finance and Mobile banking all were good till 2015. Now is the Age for what we call SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS...  Read More >>

The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty

The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate...

Author: Erica Kohl-Arenas
ISBN: 9780520283442
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Can philanthropy alleviate inequality? Do antipoverty programs work on the ground? In this book, the author focuses...  Read More >>

An Accident of Geography: Compassion, Innovation and the Fight Against Poverty

An Accident of Geography: Compassion, Innovation and...

Author: Richard C. Blum ,  Thomas C. Hayes
ISBN: 9781626343344
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Advances in global development have helped lift hundreds of millions of people from poverty in recent decades, but...  Read More >>

U.S. Domestic Food & Nutrition Assistance: Policies & Programs

U.S. Domestic Food & Nutrition Assistance: Policies...

Author: Carolyn R Foster
ISBN: 9781634837323
Format: Hardback
$504.54

Over the years, Congress has authorised and the federal government has administered programs to provide food to...  Read More >>

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Benefits, Eligibility, & Provisions in the 2014 Farm Bill

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Benefits,...

Author: Samuel C Ward
ISBN: 9781634837309
Format: Hardback
$424.32

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily...  Read More >>

U.S. Farm Businesses & the Role of Debt: Use Patterns & Key Trends

U.S. Farm Businesses & the Role of Debt: Use Patterns...

Author: Laura C Hughes
ISBN: 9781634837347
Format: Hardback
$424.32

Farm businesses' debt-use decisions can affect their growth and survival, as well as the economic vitality of farm-dependent...  Read More >>

WIC Program: Special Supplemental Nutrition for Women, Infants, & Children

WIC Program: Special Supplemental Nutrition for Women,...

Author: Rosalie Parsons
ISBN: 9781634838542
Format: Hardback
$504.54

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides supplemental nutrition-rich...  Read More >>

Local Governments and Rural Development: Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru

Local Governments and Rural Development: Comparing Lessons...

Author: Krister Andersson ,  Gustavo Gordillo de Anda
ISBN: 9780816532063
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Despite the recent economic upswing in many Latin American countries, rural poverty rates in the region have actually...  Read More >>

Tightening Noose of Poverty

Tightening Noose of Poverty

Author: Masood Rezvi
ISBN: 9781517533069
Format: Paperback
$33.13

Many of us have seen this - walking through those shabby lanes, smelling of sewage and garbage dump, snotty kids...  Read More >>

At the Edges of Citizenship: Security and the Constitution of Non-citizen Subjects

At the Edges of Citizenship: Security and the Constitution...

Author: Kate Hepworth
ISBN: 9781472430366
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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SNAP Matters: How Food Stamps Affect Health and Well-Being

SNAP Matters: How Food Stamps Affect Health and Well-Being...

Author: Judith Bartfeld ,  Craig Gundersen
ISBN: 9780804796835
Format: Paperback
$79.20

In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP)....  Read More >>

SNAP Matters: How Food Stamps Affect Health and Well-Being

SNAP Matters: How Food Stamps Affect Health and Well-Being...

Author: Judith Bartfeld ,  Craig Gundersen
ISBN: 9780804794466
Format: Hardback
$316.80

In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP)....  Read More >>

Attitudes, Poverty and Agency in Russia and Ukraine

Attitudes, Poverty and Agency in Russia and Ukraine...

Author: Ann-Mari Sätre (Uppsala University, Sweden) ,  Ildikó Asztalos Morell (Uppsala University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781138957640
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book focuses on Ukraine and on two regions in Russia: Nizhny Novgorod and Archangelsk. Contributors look at...  Read More >>

Understanding Peace and Security

Understanding Peace and Security

Author: Roy Bhaskar
ISBN: 9780415376723
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Contributes to what we know about the role of poverty and low income in the health of individuals and households...  Read More >>

State of India’s Livelihoods Report 2015

State of India’s Livelihoods Report 2015

Author: N Srinivasan ,  Girija Srinivasan
ISBN: 9789351508656
Format: Paperback
$72.00

An annual publication that addresses contemporary issues in the livelihoods sector.   Read More >>

Job Skills and Minority Youth: New Program Directions

Job Skills and Minority Youth: New Program Directions...

Author: Barton J. Hirsch (Northwestern University, Illinois)
ISBN: 9781107075009
Format: Hardback
$343.20

This book uses a rigorous methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of recent initiatives that aim to improve minority...  Read More >>

Poverty and Welfare in Guernsey, 1560-2015

Poverty and Welfare in Guernsey, 1560-2015

Author: Rose-Marie Crossan
ISBN: 9781783270408
Format: Hardback
$245.81

An account of poor relief in Guernsey from the Reformation to the twenty-first century, incorporating a detailed...  Read More >>

Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South

Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South

Author: Ananya Roy ,  Emma Shaw Crane
ISBN: 9780820348438
Format: Paperback
$102.83

Challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organised. Staging theoretical...  Read More >>

Financing Poor Relief through Charitable Collections in Dutch Towns, c. 1600-1800

Financing Poor Relief through Charitable Collections...

Author: Daniëlle Teeuwen
ISBN: 9789089647931
Format: Hardback
$287.21

This book examines both the policies of church boards and town councils in organising charitable appeals, as well...  Read More >>

Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South

Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South

Author: Ananya Roy ,  Emma Shaw Crane
ISBN: 9780820348421
Format: Hardback
$335.15

Challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organised. Staging theoretical...  Read More >>

Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities: Nordic Perspectives on Urban Marginalisation & Social Sustainability

Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities: Nordic...

Author: Erica Righard ,  Erica Righard
ISBN: 9789187675737
Format: Hardback
$82.67

However, reality has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and Scandinavia's cities now share many of...  Read More >>

The Geography of United States Poverty: Patterns of Deprivation, 1980-1990

The Geography of United States Poverty: Patterns of...

Author: Wendy Shaw
ISBN: 9781138957305
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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