Poverty and precarity

European integration is focused on improving economic performance and increasing income levels in nations across the European Union.

European integration is focused on improving economic performance and increasing income levels in nations across the European Union.

Economics of Faith examines the role of religious leaders in the development of poor relief institutions in early modern Europe.

Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music.

Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music.

Over the past 75 years, household income in the United States has increased substantially.

Over the past 75 years, household income in the United States has increased substantially.

What was American welfare like in George Washington's day?

What was American welfare like in George Washington's day?

In the mid-eighteenth century in France, the royal authorities launched a new campaign to sweep beggars from the streets, pinning their hopes on the creation of a uniform royal network of lock-ups in which anyone found begging might be detained.

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

China's explosive economic growth since 1988 has not resulted in an equal increase of income among all Chinese citizens.

Inclusion in the American Dream brings together leading scholars and policy experts on the topic of asset building, particularly as this relates to public policy.

Ela Bhatt is widely recognized as one of the world's most remarkable pioneers and entrepreneurial forces in grassroots development.

The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy is a reassessment of the languages and methodologies used, throughout the nineteenth century, for discussing extreme hunger in Britain.

The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy is a reassessment of the languages and methodologies used, throughout the nineteenth century, for discussing extreme hunger in Britain.

'It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.

'It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.

Homeless Heritage describes the process of using archaeological methodologies to collaboratively document how contemporary homeless people use and experience the city.

Why does poverty persist?

Globally, there is a commitment to eliminate poverty; and yet the politics that have caused anti-poverty policies to succeed in some countries and to fail in others have been little studied.

Unique in its approach and in the variety of methods and data employed, this book is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth evaluation of the financial system of Thailand, a proto-typical Asian developing economy.

Unique in its approach and in the variety of methods and data employed, this book is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth evaluation of the financial system of Thailand, a proto-typical Asian developing economy.

Why does poverty persist?

Combining the fields of international trade theory, economic development, and economic growth, this text provides an advanced exposition suitable for graduate students as well as researchers at all levels.

This collection of essays provides a state-of-the-art examination of the concepts and methods that can be used to understand poverty dynamics.

We live in an increasingly prosperous world, yet the estimated number of undernourished people has risen, and will continue to rise with the doubling of food prices.

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized.

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

Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns.

The relationship between growth, inequality, and poverty lies at the heart of development economics.

As events highlight deep divisions in attitudes between America and Europe, this is a very timely study of different approaches to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty.

In this ground-breaking, two-volume study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures, leading scholars detail the wide variety of responses in twelve countries.

What are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for food security in poor countries?

The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the ways in which we seek to study and understand them continue to change over time.

'Poverty itself is a violation of numerous basic human rights.

Poverty and Shame: Global Experiences explores Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's contention that shame lies at the absolutist core of poverty.

Poverty in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens was a markedly different concept to that with which we are familiar today.

Poverty in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens was a markedly different concept to that with which we are familiar today.

Focuses on economic mobility and inequality, discussing the ''Great Gatsby Curve'', the relationship between mobility and inequality.

Homeless Heritage describes the process of using archaeological methodologies to collaboratively document how contemporary homeless people use and experience the city.

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No one wants to live in poverty.

No one wants to live in poverty.

Why are some people poor?

Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis is evolving rapidly.

Can grassroots social movements impact the financial system?

Can grassroots social movements impact the financial system?

Dying at the Margins: Reflections on Justice and Healing for Inner-City Poor gives voice to the most vulnerable and disempowered population-the urban dying poor- and connects them to the voices of leaders in end-of-life-care.

Dying at the Margins: Reflections on Justice and Healing for Inner-City Poor gives voice to the most vulnerable and disempowered population-the urban dying poor- and connects them to the voices of leaders in end-of-life-care.