Poverty and precarity

By looking at the link between trade liberalization and pro-poor growth in Nepal, this book explores how a developing and transition economy can attain higher and pro-poor growth along with the ongoing trend of globalization.

China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China.

China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China.

,This book provides an excellent framework to analyse the experience of a wide variety of successful initiatives across the world and draws attention to critical issues that practitioners need to think about when designing poverty reduction interventions and scaling up.

,This book provides an excellent framework to analyse the experience of a wide variety of successful initiatives across the world and draws attention to critical issues that practitioners need to think about when designing poverty reduction interventions and scaling up.

One of the most promising approaches to poverty reduction in developing countries is to encourage sustainable livelihoods for the poor.

One of the most promising approaches to poverty reduction in developing countries is to encourage sustainable livelihoods for the poor.

The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects.

The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects.

This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem, exploring the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies.

This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem, exploring the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies.

This book debates the emergent proprieties of rural and peri-urban South Africa since land and agrarian reforms were initiated after the transition to democracy in 1994.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Understand the social factors that challenge this fast-growing community!

Understand the social factors that challenge this fast-growing community!

A much-needed, indispensable volume for anyone involved in the social services or human services field, Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities supplies you with vital information that will assist you in offering culturally sensitive services to your clients.

A much-needed, indispensable volume for anyone involved in the social services or human services field, Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities supplies you with vital information that will assist you in offering culturally sensitive services to your clients.

This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion.

This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion.

Childhood is increasingly saturated by technology: from television to the Internet, video games to 'video nasties', camcorders to personal computers.

Childhood is increasingly saturated by technology: from television to the Internet, video games to 'video nasties', camcorders to personal computers.

First Published in 1971.

First Published in 1971.

This is Volume XI of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology.

This is Volume XI of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology.

This is Volume VI of fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology Series.

This is Volume VI of fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology Series.

This is Volume IV of fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology Series.

This is Volume IV of fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology Series.

This is Volume I of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series.

This is Volume I of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series.

First published in 1998.

First published in 1998.

Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world's urban population and are projected to house almost all its increase between now and 2030.

Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world's urban population and are projected to house almost all its increase between now and 2030.

First published in 1998.

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South - mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision.

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South - mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision.

First published in 1998.

The core argument of Jean Anyon's classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail.

The core argument of Jean Anyon's classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail.

Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty continues to be a key area of research.

Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty continues to be a key area of research.

The contributors and editors of this volume begin from the assumption that the changes wrought by globalization compel us to reflect upon the status of the child and childhood at the end of the 20th century.

The contributors and editors of this volume begin from the assumption that the changes wrought by globalization compel us to reflect upon the status of the child and childhood at the end of the 20th century.