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.
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.
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?
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.
»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.
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.
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.
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.
This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The first interdisciplinary reference to cover the socioeconomic and political history, the movements, and the changing face of poverty in the United States.
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.
Poverty estimates-the number and percentage of persons living in poverty-have been of interest to Congress not only to gauge the nation's economic health, but also because they are used to determine funding allocations for a variety of programs.
