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Fighting Poverty with Facts
International Development Research Centre 2009; US$ 20.00For more than two decades, governments and development agencies around the world have focused on reducing poverty. There have been advances, but progress has been uneven and nearly a quarter of the worlds population still suffers from extreme income poverty. Income poverty, however, is only part of the picture. A multi-faceted account... more...
Les faits, une arme contre la pauvreté
International Development Research Centre 2009; US$ 20.00Partout dans le monde, des gouvernements et des organismes de développement semploient, depuis plus de deux décennies, à réduire la pauvreté. Certes, il y a eu des progrès, mais ils ont été inégaux : près du quart de la population mondiale vit toujours dans une pauvreté monétaire extrême.... more...
Combatiendo la pobreza con hechos
International Development Research Centre 2009; US$ 20.00Durante más de dos décadas, gobiernos y agencias de desarrollo alrededor del mundo se han concentrado en la reducción de la pobreza. Ha habido avances, pero han sido disparejos y casi la cuarta parte de la población mundial sufre todavía de extrema pobreza por ingresos. Sin embargo, esta pobreza por ingresos... more...
Globalization and Poverty
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 36.00Analyze the impact globalization has had on poverty, rural development, regional examples, role of multinationals, human capital development, and sustainability. more...
Participatory Approaches to Attacking Extreme Poverty
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 9.99Relying on contributions from the International Movement ATD Fourth World, this book deals with questions such as:What does it mean to live in poverty, and especially in extreme poverty? How can very poor people be reached through development projects? How can we assess whether projects succeed in changing the lives of the poorest individuals? In answering... more...
Biography and Social Exclusion in Europe
The Policy Press 2002; US$ 45.00Throughout Europe, standardised approaches to social policy and practice are being radically questioned and modified. Beginning from the narrative detail of individual lives, this book re-thinks welfare predicaments, emphasising gender, generation, ethnic and class implications of economic and social deregulation. more...
Rural Homelessness
The Policy Press 2002; US$ 41.95Rural homelessness explores the shifting policy context of homelessness and social exclusion in relation to rural areas in the UK and other countries in the developed world. Drawing on the first comprehensive survey of rural homelessness in the UK, the book positions these findings within a wider international context. more...
World Poverty
The Policy Press 2002; US$ 39.95The study, when published in 2002, received coverage across the globe from Brazil to Greece and attracted the support of the then High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson. Anyone interested in understanding, campaigning or simply debating the issues facing policy makers today will find this book a rich and compelling resource. more...
Poverty in America: An Encyclopedia
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 75.00How has the U.S. dealt, throughout its long history, with one of the worlds oldest problems? Although poverty has always been part of the human experience, societal reactions and responses to it have been as varied as the condition has been static. Poverty in America has its own turbulent history of causes, effects, and remedies, from debtor's prison... more...
Poor People
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 13.99That was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann's fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously offered. Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and quiet resignation,... more...









