Poverty and precarity

Contributors examine the ethical issues surrounding microfinance, including questions about exploitation, human rights, and efforts to promote global justice.

This book provides a theory and evidence explaining the initial decision of governments to adopt a conditional cash transfer program.

This book provides a theory and evidence explaining the initial decision of governments to adopt a conditional cash transfer program.

Contributors examine the ethical issues surrounding microfinance, including questions about exploitation, human rights, and efforts to promote global justice.

This book discusses the fundamental constraints that need to be overcome to move the economy of Pakistan to higher growth.

In this comparative, historical survey of three East Asian countries, Jong-sung You explores how inequality hinders democratic control of corruption.

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

In this comparative, historical survey of three East Asian countries, Jong-sung You explores how inequality hinders democratic control of corruption.

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

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

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

A collection of papers that address unemployment as a social phenomenon.

A collection of papers that address unemployment as a social phenomenon.

This work presents the most recent data on poverty, family structure and participation in welfare programmes.

This work presents the most recent data on poverty, family structure and participation in welfare programmes.

Leading thinkers and activists discuss the intersection of race and poverty.

Leading thinkers and activists discuss the intersection of race and poverty.

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

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

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.

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.

The American Dream is under assault.

The American Dream is under assault.

Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; corporate welfare; and others.

Artioles and symposia on major controversial social issues: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's recent race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; corporate welfare; and others.

The author presents an argument for a system of social insurance that replaces welfare with a Guaranteed Adequate Income.

The author presents an argument for a system of social insurance that replaces welfare with a Guaranteed Adequate Income.

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.

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

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

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

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

This ground-breaking work traces developments in poor relief from the mid-fourteenth century to the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601.

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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.

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.

People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe.

People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe.

In the year 2000, the international community agreed to a framework to address global poverty.

In the year 2000, the international community agreed to a framework to address global poverty.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'I couldn't put it down.

This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion.

This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion.

How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their own?

How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their own?

Focusing on the lives of first- and second-generation British Pakistani young adult men and those approaching middle age who offend or have offended and the experiences of their fathers bringing them up in a de-industrialised city, this book examines the influence of social relations on their moves toward and away from crime, particularly the impact of father-son relationships.

Make your money make a difference and enjoy attractive returns Small Money, Big Impact explores and explains the globally growing importance of impact investing.

Make your money make a difference and enjoy attractive returns Small Money, Big Impact explores and explains the globally growing importance of impact investing.