Poverty and precarity

As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda.

Why are poor Americans so patriotic?

For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline.

It has long been suggested that poverty was responsible for a criminal underclass emerging in Britain during the nineteenth century.

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Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of No Poverty focuses on Sustainable Development Goal number one (SDG#1): to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis is evolving rapidly.

In Poor Whites of the Antebellum South, Charles C.

Ways in which poverty can be reduced in both countries and regions through business, entrepreneurship and government has been a hot issue for researchers and policymakers in recent years.

Within-country income inequality has risen since the early 1980s in most of the OECD, all transitional, and many developing countries.

Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences that large-scale production of transport fuel substitutes can have on rural areas, principally in developing countries but also in some poor rural areas of developed countries.

In today's workplaces we work harder and longer, labouring under the illusion that this will bring us more wealth.

Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?

Exacerbated by the Great Recession, youth transitions to employment and adulthood have become increasingly protracted, precarious, and differentiated by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.

In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal.

This book explores Africa''s involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth century.

This book presents a rigorous empirical study of various aspects of poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh.

Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern.

How are poverty and social inequality entrenched through a failing justice system?

Without access to mainstream financial services, people pay more for goods and services and have less choice.

Drawing on longitudinal interviews, government records, and personal narratives, feminist sociologist Lisa Brush examines the intersection of work, welfare, and battering.

In this mix of history, journalism, political analysis, and first-person accounts, former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd, and investigative journalist Lori Culbert, offer a portrait of one of North Americas poorest, most drug-challenged neighbourhoods: Vancouvers Downtown Eastside.

Homeless.

An investigation which assesses how social policy affects human behaviour in the areas of temporary absence from paid work, early retirement and unemployment.

This book assesses the role of microfinance in the construction of livelihoods for poverty reduction in the Northern Savannah of Ghana, analysing the current microfinance landscape and financial services in the region.

US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the “defining issue of our time.

In A People's War on Poverty, Wesley G.

Over the past 75 years, household income in the United States has increased substantially.

Media are incorporated into our physical environments more dramatically than ever before - literally opening up new spaces of interactivity and connection that transform the experience of being in the city.

Of all the New Testament writings Luke-Acts focuses particular attention on rich and poor, possessions and poverty.

Much of the literature that addresses youth unemployment has been framed within an economic paradigm and much less attention has been focused on the role played by country-specific value orientations in structuring economic activity.

In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her mother's partner and the establishment, Martha is now 16 and her time at the convent school is up.

A Booklist Best Book of the Year: "e;The definitive history of the life and death of America's most iconic housing project,"e; Chicago's Cabrini-Green (David Simon, creator of The Wire).

This volume provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in order to raise the necessary financial resources to make the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals a reality by 2015.

In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom.

This book offers a close look at the discourse of and around three socially marginalised and vulnerable groups – Irish Travellers, Squatters and Homeless people – in order to understand more about how individuals within them position themselves vis-à-vis mainstream society.

Poverty Reform in Canada addresses a central theoretical concern in the contemporary study of public policy - the dichotomy between society-centred and state-centred perspectives on the modern state.

Sympathy for the poor and resentment of the rich are widespread, and they influence Americans'' political preferences.

When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten years on its success in making Britain 'a more equal society'.

Housing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market.

Why has India's astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy?

Globalization is characterised by persistent poverty and growing inequality.

An overview of the role played by federalism in anti-poverty policy and in poverty law.

In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines Americas ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness.

A collection of in-depth essays focused on the health issues facing the poorest populations in the United States as it relates to the common good of all Americans.