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Poverty and the Underclass
NYU Press 1994; US$ 60.00The much-heralded War on Poverty has failed. The number of children living in poverty is steadily on the rise and an increasingly destructive underclass brutalizes urban neighborhoods. America's patience with the poor seems to have run out: even cities that have traditionally been havens for the homeless are arresting, harassing, and expelling... more...
Poverty and Global Recession in Southeast Asia
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2011; US$ 59.90Financial crises after financial crises have occurred, but for many countries the last one, the 2008?09 global recession, was the deepest since the 1930s great depression. This book started with an objective to understand the impact of high inflation on poverty and food security in Southeast Asia. However, the global economy moved quickly into recession... more...
The Politics of Poverty Reduction
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 109.99Globally, there is a commitment to eliminate poverty; and yet the politics that have caused anti-poverty policies to succeed in some countries and to fail in others have been little studied. The Politics of Poverty Reduction focuses on these political processes. Analysis is based partly on global comparisons and partly on case-studies of nine countries... more...
World Poverty for Dummies
Wiley 2012; US$ 21.99Created especially for the Australian customer! Uncover the global building blocks of poverty Ending world poverty is possible -- and you can help. With World Poverty For Dummies , you find out about the building blocks of poverty, as well as its varying causes and manifestations in different regions around the world. Most importantly, you discover... more...
Adaptation, Poverty and Development
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa. more...
Civil Society and Global Poverty
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is world?s largest civil society movement fighting against poverty and inequality, incorporating over 100 affiliated country-level coalitions. It has become a significant global actor and its annual days of mobilisation now attract over 175 million people around the world. This book seeks to explore... more...
Global Poverty
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 29.95Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a relatively low international profile until the end of the 20th century. In this important new work, Hulme charts the rise of global poverty as a priority global issue, and its subsequent marginalisation as old themes edged... more...
Social Impact Analysis of Poverty Alleviation Programmes and Projects
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 47.50This study of the impact of poverty alleviation programmes considers the state of research on evaluation including the social dimension and the methodology; illustrates the evolution of evaluation in the field of development co-operation; and shows successful and inadequate analyzing methods. more...
The Corner
Crown Publishing Group 2013; US$ 16.95The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war,... more...
How the Other Half Dies
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 1989; US$ 46.99To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. more...









