Poverty and precarity

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.

A major source for the BBC drama The ReckoningWinner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction DaggerShortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black PrizeDan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a period of seven years before his death.

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.

Why do some development projects succeed where others fail?

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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.

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.

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.

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.

The first interdisciplinary reference to cover the socioeconomic and political history, the movements, and the changing face of poverty in the United States.

A helpful and practical tool for leaders of residential cooperatives in Florida.

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A shocking exploration of Beijing’s notorious underground where over 1 million residents live: a sobering reminder of the human cost of capitalism.

Teen suicide has long been considered one of society's darkest secrets; the idea of troubled young people driven to take their own lives was a tragedy too horrible to contemplate, let alone talk about openly.

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.

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