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  • Decentralization for Satisfying Basic Needs
    J. Michael McGuire / JMichael McGuire
    A volume in Research on Hispanic and Latino BusinessSeries Editors Michael William Mulnix and Esther Elena López-MulnixMore than one in every five Latin Americans lives on less than $2 a day, and Latin America isthe most unequal region in the world. The book tackles the problem of poverty and inequality in LatinAmerica through the novel approach of using the decentralization of...
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    127,99 €

  • Social Policy and Human Development in Zambia (PB)
    Ndangwa Noyoo
    Social Policy And Human Development In Zambia discusses social policy and human development endeavours in Zambia, including the various societal forces that converged on the country in both the pre-colonial and colonial periods and which later influenced post-colonial social policy initiatives. The pre-colonial era epitomised indigenous forms of social protection that safeguard...
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    31,97 €

  • Poverty in Africa
    Poverty in Africa presents a comprehensive picture on the extent of poverty in Africa and the institutional constraints to poverty reduction, Prepared by eminent economists the volume provides an analysis of poverty, income distribution and labour markets, and offers a range of tools for monitoring poverty and assessing the impacts of various poverty reduction programs. Prepare...
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    129,43 €

  • Charity and poverty in England, c.1680-1820
    Sarah Lloyd
    This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England, with an eye to some of the odder manifestations of charity and poor relief. ...
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    157,10 €

  • Moving the Rock
    Mary E. Abrums / Mary EAbrums
    Moving the Rock portrays several generations of African American women whose families migrated from the South to the Pacific Northwest in the 1940s and 1950s. As members of a small storefront church in central Seattle, these women-grandmothers, mothers, daughters-lean on their faith and church to face the challenges of poverty, racism, ignorance, and health. In the wake of Hurr...
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    63,90 €

  • Megacities
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    51,40 €

  • Have Not
    Vasudha Joshi
    Have Not: Genesis, Nature of Poverty and the Way Out is rooted in economics, but it also draws on insights from sociological and historical studies of poverty. It constructs a coherent and absorbing narrative for lay readers. It eschews empirical support and emphasises simplicity of exposition. At the same time, it will appeal to specialists because of its focus on core ideas ...
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    23,82 €

  • American Hungers
    Gavin Jones
    Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These insights lay the groundwork for American Hungers, in which Jones uncovers a complex...
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    50,23 €

  • Chronic Poverty in Asia
    John Malcolm Dowling / Yap Chin-Fang
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    257,81 €

  • Living in Poverty
    A volume in Advances in Cultural PsychologySeries Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark UniversityThis book covers the results of investigation of social realities and their public representation in Brazilianpoor communities, with a particular emphasis on the use of cultural tools to survive and create psychologicaland social novelty under conditions of severe poverty. A relevant part o...
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    97,92 €

  • Living in Poverty
    A volume in Advances in Cultural PsychologySeries Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark UniversityThis book covers the results of investigation of social realities and their public representation in Brazilianpoor communities, with a particular emphasis on the use of cultural tools to survive and create psychologicaland social novelty under conditions of severe poverty. A relevant part o...
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    140,46 €

  • The Pond (La Charca)
    Manuel Zeno-Gandia / Kal Wagenheim
    Before the turn of the century, while the rich in Madrid, Paris and Rome capped their sumptuous dinners with sips of Puerto Rico’s exquisite black café, the anemic men, women and children who harvested the precious crop lived in squalid huts and rarely saw a scrap of meat. Brutalized by grinding poverty, theirs was the harsh world of Manuel Zeno-Gandia’s La Charca, published in...
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    20,29 €

  • Beyond the Primary Commodity Trap
    Uchendu Egbezor
    Beyond the Primary Commodity Trap offers an alternative paradigm for analysing African development from the current 'aid and aids' narrative. Taking as its point of departure Africa's failure to extricate itself from over dependence on raw materials and its seeming inability to industrialise, it offers an analysis of the political forces that have shaped and continue to sha...
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    25,96 €

  • Fragmented Families, Poverty, and Women's Reproductive Narratives in South Africa
    Kammila Naidoo
    Fragmented Families addresses a central question in the demographic debates on poverty and fertility transition in southern Africa:. In what ways do women's recurrent encounters with poverty serve to shape their sexual unions, social relationships and reproductive practices? The book focuses on the lives of a group of mothers and daughters from fifteen families in a demarca...
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    39,69 €

  • The Road to Wigan Pier
    George Orwell
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    11,03 €

  • Treatment of Poverty in Cambridgeshire 1597-1834
    Ethel Mary Hampson
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    48,99 €

  • Climate, Affluence, and Culture
    Evert Van De Vliert
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    130,42 €

  • Poverty, Justice, and Western Political Thought
    Sharon K. Vaughan / Sharon KVaughan / Sharon Vaughan
    The number of people who live in poverty has always far exceeded the number who do not. The normative question of how governments ought to treat the poor goes to the heart of the idea of justice and thus it is an essential element of political theory. Yet, there has been no formal study of the treatment of poverty in Western political thought. The chapters ofPoverty, Justice, a...
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    64,10 €

  • Out of Poverty
    Paul Polak
    For the past twenty-five years, two questions have kept my curiosity aroused: What makes poor people poor? And what can they do about their poverty? Because of these infernal questions, I’ve dozed off during hundreds of long jeep rides with good companions over dusty, potholed roads. I’ve had thousands of conversations with one-acre farmers with dirt on their hands. We’ve walke...
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    33,78 €

  • Tales from Colonia Popular
    Tamar Diana Wilson
    Creative non-fiction or fiction, Tales from Colonia Popular seeks to describe the lives of people the author met in a squatter settlement in Mexicali, where she lived from 1988 to 1994. They are meant to depict the struggles of the poor in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds. They tell the stories of women who live in the colonia, including a woman who received Special Agri...
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    13,80 €

  • Poverty in the Roman World
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    58,06 €

  • Poverty Dynamics
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    67,51 €

  • Descentralizacion Para Satisfacer Necesidades Basicas
    J. Michael McGuire / JMichael McGuire
    A volume in Research on Hispanic and Latino BusinessSeries Editors Michael William Mulnix and Esther Elena López-MulnixApproximately 25% of Latin Americans live on less than $2 a day, and Latin America is the most unequal regionof the world. Poverty and inequality cause suffering and slow development.The solution must include generating an inclusive development process through ...
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    71,71 €

  • Descentralizacion Para Satisfacer Necesidades Basicas
    J. Michael McGuire / JMichael McGuire
    A volume in Research on Hispanic and Latino BusinessSeries Editors Michael William Mulnix and Esther Elena López-MulnixApproximately 25% of Latin Americans live on less than $2 a day, and Latin America is the most unequal regionof the world. Poverty and inequality cause suffering and slow development.The solution must include generating an inclusive development process through ...
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    127,98 €

  • On the Parish?
    Steve Hindle
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    74,61 €

  • Homeless in Paradise
    William O'Connell / william o’connell
    Take an eye-opening, thought provoking and captivating journey into the underbelly of this heart wrenching, riveting, lifestyle which takes place on Venice Beach, CA. Read fascinating stories by Professor O’Connell who captures the mood, spirit, and torturing thoughts of ten random homeless people ranging from people with mental illness to the consciousness of one of the most s...
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    29,52 €

  • City of Gardens
    Patrick J. Schnerch
    See how mental illness, addiction and homelessness have affected Victoria, B.C. Canada and learn what are the city’s plan to eradicate these conditions is. 3 ...
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    21,65 €

  • Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility
    Abigail Gosselin
    This book considers what responsibilities affluent individuals have toward global poverty, given that global poverty is a problem with structural, political causes, and one that generally requires collective action. While philosophers have tended to address responsibility for global poverty in exclusively moral, political, or legal ways, Gosselin examines the intersection of th...
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    141,64 €

  • Suffering and Smiling
    Sterling Johnson
    Suffering and Smiling is an examination of the myriad challenges of impoverishment facing Africa and Africans in the new millennium. Selected African states and institutions are examined using the patient-physician relationship and the various systems of the human body as models. The major diseases and maladies and the impact of HIV/AIDS are examined as well as the challenges t...
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    119,13 €

  • Poverty Reduction through Sustainable Fisheries
    'Beyond previous more simplistic approaches, this book takes a giant step towards understanding and translating into people-centered policies the actual position and complexity of fish production in Southeast Asian economies. Tackling how fi sheries and aquaculture are embedded in local and household economies and linked through dynamic supply chains to more distant, even globa...
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    35,41 €


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