Poverty and precarity

Peasants are a majority of the world's poor.

While the need for effective action toward a greener and socially inclusive economy has long been evident, health promotion in the context of sustainable development has faltered.

While the need for effective action toward a greener and socially inclusive economy has long been evident, health promotion in the context of sustainable development has faltered.

This collection offers a timely reassessment of viable ways of addressing poverty across the globe today.

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.

This collection offers a timely reassessment of viable ways of addressing poverty across the globe today.

Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health.

Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health.

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.

Have slums become 'cool'?

Have slums become 'cool'?

Microcredit programmes, long considered efficient development tools, now face unprecedented crises in a number of countries.

Microcredit programmes, long considered efficient development tools, now face unprecedented crises in a number of countries.

When viewed from the perspective of those who suffer the consequences of repressive approaches to public security, it is often difficult to distinguish state agents from criminals.

When viewed from the perspective of those who suffer the consequences of repressive approaches to public security, it is often difficult to distinguish state agents from criminals.

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 22 begins with papers of widespread interest on the impact of the Great Recession.

This book examines how people's self-awareness is affected by both internal and external factors amid war and poverty.

The shocking poignant story of eviction, expulsion, and the hard-scrabble fight for a homeThey are reviled.

Wealth-ranking is a participatory tool enabling people to group their fellows into wealth bands, and thus identify the very poor.

This book provides new empirical evidence on access to and use of ICTs and their effect on poor households in East African and Southern African countries.

Access to energy is essential for poor people to earn a decent living, to work their way out of the vicious cycle of poverty and subsistence.

Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social protection programmes to tackle poverty.

Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social protection programmes to tackle poverty.

As jobs disappear and wages flat-line, paid work is an increasingly fragile and unattainable basis for dignified life.

As jobs disappear and wages flat-line, paid work is an increasingly fragile and unattainable basis for dignified life.

Mathieu lives in the street by choice, eschewing drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol.

Summary of Hillbilly Elegy by J.

Completely updated guide to the laws governing homeowners associations in Florida.

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

America's Overpopulation Predicament:Blindsiding Future Generations The subject of this book will profoundly and adversely affect every man, woman and child on earth by 2050.

The Five Old Guys are all dead now, as are most of the once homeless people in this book, but the long sad line, coming up behind them, hosts several million more of our neighbors, all so poor they cannot afford to go to that place we all go when the darkness comes-a home.

Answering the Cry of the Poor in a Million VillagesThe church is facing a strategic opportunity85 percentof people living in extreme povertyaround the world reside in villages.

Answering the Cry of the Poor in a Million VillagesThe church is facing a strategic opportunity85 percentof people living in extreme povertyaround the world reside in villages.

With climate change and the environment making headlines on an almost-daily basis, followers of Christ can find themselves asking, "e;What's my role in this?

A gripping and powerful story about survival on the streets.

Billions of American tax dollars go into a vast array of programs targeting various social issues: the opioid epidemic, criminal violence, chronic unemployment, and so on.

In San Diego, not far from the gates of the fantasy world of Disneyland, tent cities lining the freeways remind us of an ugly reality.

»Armut hat System«: Warum wir in Deutschland eine soziale Zeitenwende brauchen – ein Appell der Tafel Deutschland-GeschäftsführerinSirkka Jendis – Geschäftsführerin der Tafel Deutschland – fordert eine soziale Zeitenwende.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought renewed attention to the needs of veterans, including the needs of homeless veterans.

Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation.

Egypt is a country of its people.

Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape.

This widely adopted text and practical guidebook presents the fundamentals of family-based intervention with clients struggling with chronic poverty-related crises and life stressors.

Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom.

A classic account of low-wage workers' organization that the US Department of Labor calls one of the "e;100 books that has shaped work in America.

The most comprehensive encyclopedia available on the U.

The Osage Orange Tree, a never-before-published story by beloved poet William Stafford, is about young love complicated by misunderstanding and the insecurity of adolescence, set against the backdrop of poverty brought on by the Great Depression.

Modern land administration applies geospatial thinking to better understand and plan the proper use, conservation, and equitable use of land and property.