Poverty and precarity

Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights collects thirteen new essays that analyze how human agency relates to poverty and human rights respectively as well as how agency mediates issues concerning poverty and social and economic human rights.

The gaping holes in the U.

The financial crisis exposed the potentially unsavory results of the interaction between low- and moderate income households and alternative and mainstream financial institutions.

The American Dream is under assault.

Ob in Liedern, Filmen oder Büchern: Liebe wird zu etwas Ungreifbarem, Zufälligem, Schicksalhaftem verklärt.

Development has alleviated poverty in many countries during the 50 years since the end of War World II, yet half of mankind remains poor; a fifth are very poor.

For nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work.

Unemployment and the state in Britain offers an important and original contribution to understandings of the 1930s.

This book documents poverty systematically for the world''s indigenous peoples in developing regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty.

This book explores whether affluent people in the developed world have stringent responsibilities to help fight poverty abroad.

A bedrock American principle is the idea that all individuals should have the opportunity to succeed on the basis of their own effort, skill, and ingenuity.

The India Migration Report 2017 examines forced migration caused by political conflicts, climate change, disasters (natural and man-made) and development projects.

As millions continue to face a future of food poverty, lessons can be learned by considering how farmer cooperatives succeeded in improving India's food security.

Urban Africa is undergoing a transformation unlike anywhere else in the world, as unprecedented numbers of people migrate to rapidly expanding cities.

Why is there currently such strong academic and popular interest in 'the body' in contemporary societies?

An exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector.

A "e;well researched and vigorously written"e; account of social activism, radical politics, and the failed War on Poverty in 1960s Appalachia (Journal of American History).

In this insightful volume, Susan R.

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.

For many decades the international community has endeavoured to eliminate extreme poverty; however, it is estimated that around 800 million people still live below the international poverty line of $1.

In the growth of regional identities worldwide, the Mediterranean Basin is emerging as an entity in its own right.

Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate to and interact with poverty and inequalities.

This book provides a one-stop resource for understanding the full dimensions of income inequality in the United States, including chief socioeconomic drivers of inequality and proposals to reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in America.

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Hunger and Poverty in South Africa: The Hidden Faces of Food Insecurity explores food insecurity as an issue of socioeconomic, political, cultural and environmental inequity and inequality.

This book discusses unconventional ways of measuring and addressing poverty in South Africa, which remains one of the country''s biggest challenges.

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 recent decades there has been a vast increase in the use of imprisonment and penal supervision, and to many this development appears to be qualitatively as well as quantitatively different.

This book focuses on urban crime and policing in Turkey since the steady economic decline of the 1990s.

A two-volume set intended for readers interested in understanding the political and cultural underpinnings of socioeconomic inequality across the globe, Inequality around the World examines key drivers and shapers of inequality at the local, national, and international level.

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it.

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This book provides an accessible introduction to food inequality in the United States, offering readers a broad survey of the most important topics and issues and exploring how economics, culture, and public policy have shaped our current food landscape.

Because of its potential impact, and, in some cases, the harm it has brought, foreign aid is under the microscope.

This book documents poverty systematically for the world''s indigenous peoples in developing regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Calcutta is notorious for its pavement dwellers, street children, and scavengers that have become a portrait of the worst sort of human degradation.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for Global Development publicationThe plight of the poorest around the world has been pushed to the forefront of America's international agenda for the first time in many years by the war on terrorism and the formidable challenges presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation publicationThis book is based on a simple concept: no one is in a better position to hold a government accountable than those it governs.

This title provides a one-stop resource for understanding the crisis of homelessness in the United States.

Some Stories Just Can't Be Stopped .

Poverty is perceived as an urban problem, yet many in rural Britain also experience hardship.

This volume provides comprehensive updated coverage of inequality and poverty issues in China.

The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.

This book traces the rise of contemporary populism in Western democracies, marked by the return of would-be 'strong men' politicians.

The economically deprived come into contact with the criminal court system in disproportionate number.

A CLASSIC THAT WILL IGNITE THE NEXT ECONOMIC REVOLUTIONHailed as ';the guide to capitalism,' the New York Times bestseller Wealth and Poverty by George F.

Disaster has become big business.

Cities are seen as essentially "e;good"e;: innovative, pro-growth, poverty-reducing.

An evidence-based plan of action to achieve educational justice for K12 public school students from families whose income is 50% or more below the US poverty threshold