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Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America

Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America


Jonathan Kozol



To write this "jolting firsthand report," Kozol spent months among the homeless, whose depressing st...
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor


Rob Nixon



Slow Violence is inspiring, innovative, and passionate. Nixon forces us to confront some of the most...
Working Hard, Working Poor: A Global Journey

Working Hard, Working Poor: A Global Journey


Gary S. Fields



"Gary Fields shows us the lives of the poor in developing countries and explains why so many are con...
Creating wealth and poverty in postsocialist China

Creating wealth and poverty in postsocialist China


Deborah Davis, Wang Feng



"This book's contribution ... is the detailed depiction of the mechanisms that affect Chinese societ...
Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond

Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond


Margaret Willson



"It describes many journeys between differentworlds, both personal and public, without ever for...
Poverty and Income Distribution in Latin America: The Story of the 1980s (World Bank Technical Paper)

Poverty and Income Distribution in Latin America: The Story of the 1980s (World Bank Technical Paper)


Ariel Fiszbein, Bill Wood, George Psacharopoulos, Haeduck Lee, Samuel Morley



Poverty and Income Distribution in Latin America: The Story of the 1980s (World Bank Technical Paper)...
Poor people's knowledge: promoting intellectual property in developing countries, Pagina 823

Poor people's knowledge: promoting intellectual property in developing countries, Pagina 823


J. M. Finger, Philip Schuler



How can we help poor people earn more from their knowledge—rather than from their sweat and muscle alone? This book is abou...
Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People

Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People


David A. Snow, Leon Anderson



David Snow and Leon Anderson show us the wretched face of homelessness in late twentieth-century America in countless cities acros...
Down and out in eighteenth-century London

Down and out in eighteenth-century London


Tim Hitchcock



"this sympathetic, lively study" The Telegraph, 1 January 2005 "This is an impressive tribute to th...
Life within limits: well-being in a world of want

Life within limits: well-being in a world of want


Michael Jackson



“Life Within Limits is a book on Sierra Leonean realities, but it is also a work that tries to...
Working with Families of the Poor, Second Edition (The Guilford Family Therapy Series)

Working with Families of the Poor, Second Edition (The Guilford Family Therapy Series)


Jorge Colapinto, Patricia Minuchin, Salvador Minuchin



"Trends in human services in the last two decades have pushed the family out of the ways that problem...
New Partnership for Africa's Development: Macroeconomics, Institutions, and Poverty

New Partnership for Africa's Development: Macroeconomics, Institutions, and Poverty


Saleh M. Nsouli



New Partnership for Africa's Development: Macroeconomics, Institutions, and Poverty...
Young Homeless People

Young Homeless People


Suzanne Fitzpatrick



...an original contribution to our knowledge of the various ways in which young people experience ho...
Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: Between a Rock and a Hard Place


Raphael Kaplinsky



"This book is a significant contribution to literature on globalisation and to the theory of global ...
Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition

Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition


István Mészáros



István Mészáros is a world-renowned philosopher and critic. He left his native Hungary...
Perspectives on Poverty in India: Stylized Facts from Survey Data

Perspectives on Poverty in India: Stylized Facts from Survey Data


The World Bank



Perspectives on Poverty in India: Stylized Facts from Survey Data ...
Progress for the Poor

Progress for the Poor


Lane Kenworthy



"This brief, but concise book looks at the available data for industrialized countries in an attempt ...
Family Poverty in Diverse Contexts

Family Poverty in Diverse Contexts


Alfred L. Joseph, C. Anne Broussard



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Halving Hunger: It Can Be Done

Halving Hunger: It Can Be Done


Pedro A. Sánchez, Un Millennium Project. Task Force On Hunger



"The first chapter of this volume based on the work of the UN Millennium Project focuses on the defin...
Reducing Poverty and Sustaining the Environment: The Politics of Local Engagement

Reducing Poverty and Sustaining the Environment: The Politics of Local Engagement


Paul Steele, Stephen Bass, David Satterthwaite



David Satterthwaite is a Senior Fellow at IIED and also teaches at the Development Planning Unit of U...