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Public Finance for Poverty Reduction
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 24.99This book presents some basic theoretical concepts of public finance with a particular emphasis on its impact poverty reduction. Eight case studies from Latin America and Africa illustrate how these concepts are applied in practice and the implementation issues that emerge. more...
Beyond the Numbers
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 19.99This volume provides lessons on the design and functioning of such monitoring systems, based on the experience of twelve Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) countries. The focus is on the institutional arrangements of PRS monitoring systems - the rules and processes which bring the various actors and monitoring activities together in a coherent diagnostic... more...
Poverty and Regional Development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 9.99Regional economic development is an interest of policymakers throughout the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. One 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... more...
The Environmentalism of the Poor
Edward Elgar Publishing 2002; US$ 40.00This text analyses several manifestations of the growing "environmental justice movement", and also of "popular environmentalism" and the "environmentalism of the poor", which will be seen in the coming decades as driving forces in the process to achieve an ecologically sustainable society. more...
Poverty and Power
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2008; US$ 33.99Poverty and Power suggests that today's poverty results from deep-rooted disparities in income, wealth, and power. The rate and severity of poverty remain high, because millions of Americans are trapped in low-wage jobs, inadequately served by government policy, excluded from mainstream policy debates, and vitimized by discrimination and social exculsion. more...
Homelessness
The Policy Press 1999; US$ 41.95Analysis that links the phenomenon of homelessness to wider debates about the changing social and economic environment remains relatively underdeveloped. This important book brings together contemporary theoretical debates and original empirical research in order to explore the nature, experience and impact of social change in the context of emerging... more...
New Poverty
ABC-CLIO 1996; US$ 115.00Cheal argues that the sociology of poverty has entered a new postmodern phase. The new poverty is about loss of faithÑin relationships that were once believed to last a lifetime, and in government programs that we used to think would last for generations.||The new poverty is about the economic fall of individuals and countries who used to be affluent... more...
Poverty
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 56.00In Poverty: a philosophical approach , the author studies various philosophical issues concerning poverty in the Program for Education, Health and Food (PROGRESA) that was in effect in Mexico, from 1997 to 2002, and shows how theoretical discussion is necessary to clarify some ideas concerning the application of a social policy.Poverty is one of the... more...
Revenu minimum garanti
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 2005; US$ 29.25Cet ouvrage définit la notion de revenu minimum garanti avant d'explorer les diverses modalités (minimum social, impôt négatif et revenu de citoyenneté) au Canada, aux États-Unis et dans divers pays européens. L'auteur fait ressortir les dilemmes que pose toute stratégie de mise en place d'un revenu... more...
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 27.00NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ? NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times ? The Washington Post ? O: The Oprah Magazine ? USA Today ? New York ? The Miami Herald ? San Francisco Chronicle ? Newsday NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker ? People... more...









