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Here to Help : NGOs Combating Poverty in Latin America

Eversole, Robyn - 2016

Community-And What Happens Next? -- 1. Smallholder Agriculture and Poverty Alleviation in Indigenous Communities -- 2. Making a …5. Market Articulation and Poverty Eradication? Critical Reflection on Tourist-Oriented Craft Production in Amazonian … Ecuador -- 6. Women, Microenterprise Development, and Poverty in Bolivia -- 7. The Transformation Side of Microenterprise: The …

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A Worker's Economist : John R. Commons and His Legacy from Progressivism to the War on Poverty

Chasse, John Dennis - 2017

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Randolph County -- 2 Oberlin -- 3 Hopkins -- 4 Wesleyan-Oberlin -- 5 Indiana Beginning -- 6 Sociologist at Syracuse -- 7 Exile -- 8 The National Civic Federation -- 9 Wisconsin Labor History --...

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Marginalisation in China : perspectives on transition and globalisation

Zhang, Heather Xiaoquan (contributor); Wu, Bin (contributor) - 2007

Economic transition in China has witnessed (re)centralization of resources from the margin to the core in economic, social and political senses. This book employs a marginalization lens to reveal, delineate and better understand the processes, patterns, trends, multiple dimensions and dynamics...

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Poverty, charity and social welfare in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries

Fejtová, Olga (ed.) - 2017

Social policy, as executed in western civilization, is apparently at a crossroads, with "forgotten" contradictions between the rich and the poor having once again become topical. The current economic and social crisis, including the crisis of the welfare state, raises the need to seek solutions...

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The War on Welfare : Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America

Chappell, Marisa - 2011

Focusing on the fate of the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, this comprehensive history of the thirty year war over welfare shows how stubborn allegiance to the male-headed household undermined the struggle for economic justice.

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Reducing Poverty and Sustaining the Environment : The Politics of Local Engagement

Satterthwaite, David - 2005

'A valuable contribution to our collective knowledge about governance, poverty and the environment' Frances Seymour … project, programme and policy level activities has focused attention on the important links between poverty and the … political context is crucial for addressing poverty-environment issues such as environmental health, access to natural resources …

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Progress against poverty : sustaining Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades program

Levy, Santiago - 2006

makes some suggestions for poverty programs drawn from the main lessons of the study"--Provided by publisher …

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Poverty and regional development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Dillinger, William R. - 2007

of its principal aims is to reduce poverty in lagging regions by stimulating local economic growth. However, problems … exist with this approach. First, it may miss the target. Although geographical concentrations of poverty exist, poor people … also live in regions that are-on average-rich. Second, the sources of the problem may be misdiagnosed. Poverty is not only …

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Ordinary poverty : a little food and cold storage

DiFazio, William - 2006

eyes and voices of those who were most directly affected by it. Ordinary Poverty concludes with a program to guara …

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Digital poverty : Latin American and Caribbean perspectives

Galperin, Hernan (contributor); Mariscal, Judith (contributor) - 2007

This book examines the problem of inadequate access to information and communication technology (ICT) and the need to develop appropriate pro-poor ICT policies within the Latin American and Caribbean context. The authors show how market reforms have failed to ensure that the benefits of the...

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