What Price The Poor

Author : Ann M. Woodall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351873161

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What Price the Poor? by Ann M. Woodall Pdf

In this fascinating book, Ann Woodall investigates and compares the work and thought of William Booth and Karl Marx, who both arrived in London in 1849. She draws comparisons between their responses to the intractability of the poverty of the 'submerged tenth' of London's population, and argues that Booth's pioneering work in establishing the Salvation Army and the development of Marx's economic theory began in their interactions with the London residuum. Each recognised that much of the suffering was caused by the workings of laissez-faire capitalism and that its total solution required a challenge to the existing economic system. What Price the Poor? raises important questions about the relationship between theological discourse and the sociological imagination, and it firmly places the development of theoretical and practical social analysis and application within the context of social history. It will appeal to all with interests in classical sociology and the history of social activism.

Author : Marc J. Cohen,Melinda Smale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317979067

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Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People by Marc J. Cohen,Melinda Smale Pdf

This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries. Previous studies of this crisis have mostly used models to estimate the likely impacts. This volume includes actual evidence from the field as to how higher prices affected access to food and farm income among poor people. In addition to country and regional case studies, the book presents discussions of cross-cutting themes, including gender, risk management, violence, the importance of subsistence farming as a coping strategy, and the role of governments and markets in addressing higher prices. With 2011 witnessing an unprecedentedly high level of food prices, the findings and policy recommendations presented here should prove useful to both scholars and policy makers in understanding the causes and consequences, as well as the policies needed to ensure food security in light of the skyrocketing cost of food. This book was published as a special double issue of Development in Practice.

Author : John Hope Bryant,Andrew Young
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781626560338

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How the Poor Can Save Capitalism by John Hope Bryant,Andrew Young Pdf

This book has a simple message for business leaders: you help yourselves by helping the poor. Instead of feeling as if the economy is working against them, the poor need to feel they have a stake in it so they will buy your products and put money in the bank. Supporting poor people's efforts to move into the middle class is the only way to enrich everyone, rich and poor alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bevan Foundation
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poor
ISBN : 9781904767381

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Paying the Price of Being Poor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Suzan Ilcan,Anita Lacey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773586536

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Governing the Poor by Suzan Ilcan,Anita Lacey Pdf

Every day, we are barraged by statistics, images, and emotional messages that present poverty as a problem to be quantified, managed, and solved. Global generations present the poor as a heterogeneous group and stress globalized solutions to the problem of poverty. Governing the Poor exposes the ways in which such generalized descriptions and quantifications marginalize the poor and their experiences.

Author : Sandra L. Barnes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791483206

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The Cost of Being Poor by Sandra L. Barnes Pdf

While the negative effects of urban poverty are well documented, the everyday experiences of urban residents are often absent or secondary in urban studies research. The Cost of Being Poor rectifies this problem by examining both the noneconomic and the often-overlooked economic costs faced by residents of poor urban neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana. Using census, regional, and local data, and in-depth interviews with the residents of Gary, Sandra L. Barnes argues that many people incur costs resulting from the dual dilemma of being poor and residing in a poor urban area. She explores how factors such as race/ethnicity, neighborhood type, and location influence residents' views, coping strategies, and unconventional approaches toward making ends meet. Well written and accessible, this study of Gary's poor urban neighborhoods offers broad findings that apply to other similarly impoverished Rust Belt cities.

Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429926645

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Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Pdf

The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.

Author : Idriss Jazairy,Mohiuddin Alamgir,Theresa Panuccio
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814737545

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The State of World Rural Poverty by Idriss Jazairy,Mohiuddin Alamgir,Theresa Panuccio Pdf

Despite almost four decades and billions of dollars in development activities, we are barely in a position to track the changing dynamics of poverty or to define with conviction the processes that entrap the poor in their misery. Accounting for about 90% of global poverty, rural poverty, through transmigration, is also a main contributor to urban poverty. It is in the rural areas of the world where poverty is most severe in human terms, where the hunger, hopelessness, hardship, and despair commonly associated with entrenched poverty are most pronounced, where basic health services, sanitation, educational opportunities, and other common amenities are most lacking. The alleviation of rural poverty is therefore tantamount to the alleviation of global poverty in its entirety. The State of World Rural Poverty offers the first comprehensive look at the economic conditions and prospects of the world's rural poor.

Author : Pat Capponi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0140277889

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The War at Home by Pat Capponi Pdf

Author : Joseph Hanlon,Armando Barrientos,David Hulme
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781565493902

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Just Give Money to the Poor by Joseph Hanlon,Armando Barrientos,David Hulme Pdf

* Argues strongly for overlooked approach to development by showing how the poor use money in ways that confound stereotypical notions of aid and handouts * Team authored by foremost scholars in the development field Amid all the complicated economic theories about the causes and solutions to poverty, one idea is so basic it seems radical: just give money to the poor. Despite its skeptics, researchers have found again and again that cash transfers given to significant portions of the population transform the lives of recipients. Countries from Mexico to South Africa to Indonesia are giving money directly to the poor and discovering that they use it wisely “ to send their children to school, to start a business and to feed their families. Directly challenging an aid industry that thrives on complexity and mystification, with highly paid consultants designing ever more complicated projects, Just Give Money to the Pooroffers the elegant southern alternative “ bypass governments and NGOs and let the poor decide how to use their money. Stressing that cash transfers are not charity or a safety net, the authors draw an outline of effective practices that work precisely because they are regular, guaranteed and fair. This book, the first to report on this quiet revolution in an accessible way, is essential reading for policymakers, students of international development and anyone yearning for an alternative to traditional poverty-alleviation methods.

Author : M. Nissanke,E. Thorbecke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230594005

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Globalization and the Poor in Asia by M. Nissanke,E. Thorbecke Pdf

Asia is widely regarded as having benefited most from the dynamic growth effect of the recent wave of globalization. By examining mechanisms at work in the globalization–poverty nexus through specific case studies reflecting different settings, the book seeks to find ways to rediscover and resume a pattern of shared growth in Asia.

Author : Rosie B. Sta. Ana,Elena G. Varona
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9715601553

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Computation of Spatial Price Index for the Poor by Rosie B. Sta. Ana,Elena G. Varona Pdf

Author : Peter Greer
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459612501

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The Poor Will Be Glad by Peter Greer Pdf

A compelling call to carry God's mercy and compassion to the hurting people of this world This eminently practical book by two leading experts in the field of poverty reduction offers a clear plan to help ordinary Christians translate their compassion into thoughtful action. Authors Peter Greer and Phil Smith draw on their personal experiences t...

Author : Scott A. Snyder,Geun Lee,Young Ho Kim,Jiyoon Kim
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : International relations
ISBN : 9780876097335

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Domestic Constraints on South Korean Foreign Policy by Scott A. Snyder,Geun Lee,Young Ho Kim,Jiyoon Kim Pdf

These essays support the argument that strong and effective presidential leadership is the most important prerequisite for South Korea to sustain and project its influence abroad. That leadership should be attentive to the need for public consensus and should operate within established legislative mechanisms that ensure public accountability. The underlying structures sustaining South Korea’s foreign policy formation are generally sound; the bigger challenge is to manage domestic politics in ways that promote public confidence about the direction and accountability of presidential leadership in foreign policy.

Author : Peter Edelman
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781595589576

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So Rich, So Poor by Peter Edelman Pdf

“A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field.” —Kirkus Reviews Income disparities in our wealthy nation are wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today’s economy has stultified wage growth for half of America’s workers—with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color—while bestowing billions on the few at the very top. In this “accessible and inspiring analysis”, lifelong anti-poverty advocate Peter Edelman assesses how the United States can have such an outsized number of unemployed and working poor despite important policy gains. He delves into what is happening to the people behind the statistics and takes a particular look at young people of color, for whom the possibility of productive lives is too often lost on the way to adulthood (Angela Glover Blackwell). For anyone who wants to understand one of the critical issues of twenty-first century America, So Rich, So Poor is “engaging and informative” (William Julius Wilson) and “powerful and eloquent” (Wade Henderson).