The Challenge Of Rural Poverty

Author : Ann R. Tickamyer,Jennifer Sherman,Jennifer Warlick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231544719

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Rural Poverty in the United States by Ann R. Tickamyer,Jennifer Sherman,Jennifer Warlick Pdf

America's rural areas have always held a disproportionate share of the nation's poorest populations. Rural Poverty in the United States examines why. What is it about the geography, demography, and history of rural communities that keeps them poor? In a comprehensive analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, Rural Poverty in the United States looks at access to human and social capital; food security; healthcare and the environment; homelessness; gender roles and relations; racial inequalities; and immigration trends to isolate the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty. Contributors to this volume incorporate approaches from multiple disciplines, including sociology, economics, demography, race and gender studies, public health, education, criminal justice, social welfare, and other social science fields. They take a hard look at current and past programs to alleviate rural poverty and use their failures to suggest alternatives that could improve the well-being of rural Americans for years to come. These essays work hard to define rural poverty's specific metrics and markers, a critical step for building better policy and practice. Considering gender, race, and immigration, the book appreciates the overlooked structural and institutional dimensions of ongoing rural poverty and its larger social consequences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1037133356

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The Challenge of Rural Poverty : a Progress Report on Research and Advisory Services with Special Reference to Rural Employment Agrarian Institutions and Policies 197 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : WISC:89031461106

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The Challenge of Rural Poverty by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106016316942

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Rural Poverty Report 2001 by Anonim Pdf

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an independent body set up in 1978 to promote the increase of food production in the poorest food deficit countries. The Rural Poverty Report reassesses the nature and causes of world wide rural poverty and outlines policies designed to promote its alleviation.

Author : David L. Brown,Louis E. Swanson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271046627

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Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century by David L. Brown,Louis E. Swanson Pdf

The twentieth century was one of profound transformation in rural America. "Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century" defines these changes and interprets their implications for the future of rural America.Essays have been specially commissioned to examine key aspects of public policy relevant to rural America in the new century." From book jacket.

Author : Dima Oortwijn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Rural poor
ISBN : 1536156108

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Urban and Rural Poverty by Dima Oortwijn Pdf

Urban and Rural Poverty: Prevalence, Reduction Strategies and Challenges opens with a review of urban poverty in Bangladesh, analysing socioeconomic aspects of the marginal poor under three headings: migration and the urban poor, household characteristics, and neighborhood characteristics. Next, the authors investigate the extent of poverty in rural and urban Nigeria between 2004 and 2010. They examines the contributions of growth and redistribution factors to changes in poverty within the two sectors. The analysis was based on the National Living Standard Survey data of 2004 and 2009/2010 sourced from the National Bureau of Statistics and analysed using Shapley decomposition approach. This collection also examines how the socioeconomic characteristics of households influence rural poverty. The data for the study was extracted from the revised Nigerian General Household Survey data from 2010-2011, and a logistic regression technique was used to analyse said data. The authors argue that the improvement of rural access in developing countries is essential for the success of sustainable development goals, since poor access is one of the major causes of rural poverty and hampers rural development.The concluding chapter describes the experiences from a research project on modern logistic chains in the Mount Kenya region, demonstrating how small scale farmers organized, how important infrastructures such as rural roads, grading sheds and cooling devices were, as well as intermediate means of transport in combination with modern cooling logistics and communication technologies.

Author : Paul Milbourne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134625550

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Rural Poverty by Paul Milbourne Pdf

Moving beyond the highly visual forms of poverty characteristic of the city, Rural Poverty explores the nature of poverty in rural spaces in Britain and America. Setting out key features, it highlights the important processes that hide key components of rural poverty. The book seeks to challenge dominant assumptions about the spatialities of poverty and the nature of rural spaces in Britain and America. Drawing on a broad range of new research material, the book challenges dominant assumptions. It provides a comprehensive and critical review of the nature of poverty in rural spaces, giving particular attention to: the scale, profile and causes of poverty in rural areas the spatial unevenness and local geographies of rural poverty the experiences of different forms of poverty in rural spaces the shifting governance of rural welfare at central and local spatial scales. Demonstrating that poverty represents a significant but neglected feature of rural life in Britain and America, this insightful book highlights the processes through which rural poverty remains hidden from the dominant gazes of poverty researchers and policy-makers, the statistical significance and spatial unevenness of poverty in rural areas, the ways in which poverty is experienced in local rural spaces, and the complex governance of welfare in rural spaces. Case study material is drawn from a wide range of locations, including Wiltshire, Northumberland and Hampshire in the UK and New England in the US.

Author : Jonathan Mitchell,Christopher Coles
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849713139

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Markets and Rural Poverty by Jonathan Mitchell,Christopher Coles Pdf

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Kenneth H. Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Poverty
ISBN : OCLC:35327000

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Rural Poverty, Challenge to Innovation by Kenneth H. Parsons Pdf

Author : Tandi, Costain,Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956550487

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People-Centred Public Works Programmes by Tandi, Costain,Mawere, Munyaradzi Pdf

Poverty has long been a developmental challenge in the Global South in general and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular. With a fifth, mainly from the rural areas of the world, living below the poverty datum line, the world has a huge challenge to reduce poverty, worse still to eradicate it from the face of the earth. A target was set through the 2000-2015 United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and subsequently through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to reduce poverty by at least half by the years 2015 and 2030 respectively. In pursuing this goal, livelihoods of poor people though meeting with serious challenges, especially in rural areas, play a major role. This book explores the role played by people-centred Public Works Programmes in the fight against poverty and the development of rural communities in Africa. Whereas a number of countries in Africa have been approaching the issue of poverty through several interventions including Public Works Schemes, it is sad to note that poverty still tops the rankings among numerous economic and social challenges facing the continent. One wonders whether the public works strategy is misguided, misconstrued or mismanaged considering that its main objective is to make the unemployed more employable through the provision of temporary employment and training opportunities. The book concludes that Public Works Programmes, if well managed and people-centred, are one of the best ways to alleviate and even eradicate poverty in rural Africa, as it allows governments to make partnership with people, and facilitates implementation while giving space for economic self-sustenance, growth and development.

Author : Eide, Arne H.,Ingstad, Benedicte
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847428851

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Disability and Poverty by Eide, Arne H.,Ingstad, Benedicte Pdf

This book is about being disabled and being poor and the social, cultural and political processes that link these two aspects of living in what has been characterised as a "vicious circle" (Yeo & Moore 2003). It is also about the strengths that people show when living with disability and being poor. How they try to overcome their problems and making the best out of what little they have. This book will appeal to academics, postgraduates and policymakers in disability studies, development studies, poverty and social exclusion

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251316795

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Overview of rural poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Panorama of Rural Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean 2018, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), addresses the important challenges faced by the region in developing its rural territories to achieve the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, particularly SDG 1 to end poverty in all its forms everywhere. After many years of progress, poverty and extreme rural poverty in the region have started to increase again. This is worrying news for countries of the region and the international community because, if they do not return to the path of rural poverty reduction, millions of people will be excluded from the opportunity to contribute to the development of their families, communities and countries. The 33 Member States of the United Nations in the region have pledged their commitment to eradicating rural poverty by 2030 and, despite the recent trend, it is still possible to achieve this goal. This report also highlights the persistence of significant gaps between rural and urban areas, which is incompatible with sustainable and equitable development. Of the 169 targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, 132 require actions that must be carried out in rural territories.

Author : James B. Mayfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015041062384

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One Can Make a Difference by James B. Mayfield Pdf

This book is about the process of rural development in the Less Developed Countries (LDCs) in the world. The first section describes the realities of world poverty, to make concrete what is now generally abstract, to bring these realities of sickness and disease, illiteracy and fatalism, malnutrition and passivity, violence and political instability to the Western World's consciousness. The second section presents a three stage process of rural development, with a set of six case studies which outline how single individuals have sought to implement programs and projects to benefit the rural areas of their respective countries, and finally to outline a set of lessons learned about how such people have been able to 'Make a Difference.' The third section introduces to the reader the process by which one might become a rural development facilitator (RDF). The fourth section presents field-tested programs, strategies, approaches and action step interventions in various activities of the five dimensions of rural development in health, literacy, income generation, environment protection, and local culture enhancenment. Further attention is given to the fact that the rural development facilitators that will make a difference must have the commitment, the cultural sensitivity, the social awareness, and field experience needed to help people help themselves, but also the specific information, knowledge, and competency in areas of interest and relevancy to villagers themselves. One of the interesting dilemmas of this work of village development is finding a balance between the acquiring experience and the necessary training and skills.

Author : Atul Krishna Sur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015027777641

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The Challenge of Rural Poverty by Atul Krishna Sur Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251310274

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Ending extreme poverty in rural areas - Sustaining livelihoods to leave no one behind by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Sustainable Development Goal 1, ending poverty in all its forms, everywhere, is the most ambitious goal set by the 2030 Agenda. This Goal includes eradicating extreme poverty in the next 12 years, which will require more focused actions in addition to broad-based interventions. The question is: How can we achieve target 1.1 and overcome the many challenges that lie ahead? By gaining a deeper understanding of poverty, and the characteristics of the extreme rural poor in particular, the right policies can be put in place to reach those most in need. This report presents the contribution that agriculture, food systems and the sustainable use of natural resources can make to securing the livelihoods of the millions of poor people who struggle in our world.