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Poverty

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  • Poor Peopleby William T. Vollmann

    HarperCollins 2010; US$ 13.99

    That 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...

  • The Invisible Poorby Gabriel Demombynes; Dorte Verner

    World Bank Publications 2010; US$ 14.99

    The work grows out of discussions with counterparts at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Food (SAGPyA) and INDEC. Recognizing the dearth of information on rural areas, the World Bank team agreed to review knowledge on rural poverty and provide guidance on future data collection efforts. A primary objective of this study is to raise... more...

  • Poverty in the Soviet Unionby Mervyn Matthews

    Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 32.00

    The book deals with the continuing problem of poverty in Soviet society, a problem which the Revolution of 1917 was supposed to solve in a planned and expeditious manner. more...

  • Migration and Povertyby Edmundo Murrugarra; Jennica Larrison; Marcin Sasin

    World Bank Publications 2010; US$ 14.99

    This volume uses recent research from the World Bank to document and analyze the bidirectional relationship between poverty and migration in developing countries. The case studies chapters compiled in this book (from Tanzania, Nepal, Albania and Nicaragua), as well as the last, policy-oriented chapter – illustrate the diversity of migration experience... more...

  • The Missing Classby Katherine Newman; Victor Tan Chen

    Beacon Press 2007; US$ 16.00

    Fifty-seven million Americans-including 21 percent of the nation's children-live a notch above the poverty line, and yet the challenges they face are largely ignored. While government programs assist the poor, and politicians woo the more fortunate, the "Missing Class" is largely invisible and left to fend for itself. Missing Class parents often... more...

  • Poor Povertyby Anis Chowdhury; Jomo Kwame Sundaram

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2011; US$ 32.49

    Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty remains stubbornly high in many parts of the world. This collection argues that the mainstream perspectives on poverty and deprivation have contributed to considerable distortion and misunderstanding and that is not unrelated to ineffectual policy perscriptions. In particular... more...

  • Fighting Poverty in the US and Europeby Alberto Alesina; Edward Glaeser

    Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 26.99

    In this this timely study of the different approaches of America and Europe to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty, the authors describe just how different the two continents are in the level of State engagement in the redistribution of income. They discuss various possible economic and sociological explanations for the difference, including... more...

  • Out of Povertyby John Stackhouse

    Random House of Canada 2011; US$ 24.95

    From East Timor to Timbuktu, John Stackhouse has met and lived with hundreds of the world's poor. When he set out on this journey in 1991, he was certain that the new age of global markets and economic reforms would end decades of extreme hardship in the developing world. But as the nineties rolled on, he found poverty still entrenched in dozens of... more...

  • Trustby Pip Desmond

    Random House New Zealand 2011; US$ 26.91

    Extraordinary insight into New Zealand women?s lives with gangs. In 1977 an idealistic young doctor?s daughter, fresh out of university, knocked on the door of a run-down old house in inner-city Wellington. She was greeted by a woman in a Black Power T-shirt with metal in her nose and a spidery tattoo on her left cheek. ?Whaddya want?? the woman growled.... more...

  • Wealth and the wealthyby Karen Rowlingson; Stephen D. McKay

    The Policy Press 2011; US$ 42.95

    Using many data sources, this timely book provides a comprehensive discussion of issues of wealth, looking at potential policy responses, including 'asset-based' welfare and taxation. more...