Poverty and precarity

A Brookings Institution Press and Inter-American Development Bank publicationThe poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks.

'A heart-breaking, inspiring read' ALAN CUMMING'ONE OF THE MOST MOVING ACCOUNTS OF NON-FICTION EVER WRITTEN' GUARDIAN 'If you like Shuggie Bain, then Slum Boy is for you' LEMN SISSAYJohn MacDonald is a four-year-old boy growing up in the slums of Glasgow.

Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery-working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle.

If government tells dependent people how to live today, will we have a more self-reliant society tomorrow?

A memoir you read with the same breathlessness as you read the most gripping of novels - iNews Astonishing a story that brims with life and hard-won hope - Sunday Times Fantastic.

Draws together evidence that poverty causes serious mental illness and gives recommendations as to what can be done about this.

In einem Bauprojekt müssen zahlreiche Gewerke zeitlich und technisch perfekt aufeinander abgestimmt sein, um das Bauvorhaben termingerecht und reibungslos abzuschließen.

In einem Bauprojekt müssen zahlreiche Gewerke zeitlich und technisch perfekt aufeinander abgestimmt sein, um das Bauvorhaben termingerecht und reibungslos abzuschließen.

Debt's Griptells the story of financial struggle in the United States.

Debt's Griptells the story of financial struggle in the United States.

This handbook initiates fresh debates on poverty and its impact in a constantly changing Global South society.

This handbook initiates fresh debates on poverty and its impact in a constantly changing Global South society.

A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youthtold through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.

Wenn die Zeiten sich ändern, sollten wir alle besser gegen die Unsicherheiten, die vor uns liegen, gewappnet sein.

The acclaimed author and New Yorker columnist delves into the core of American poverty in the early 1980s: “Invaluable.

Das Ausmaß sozialer Ungleichheit und der Umgang mit Armut sind wesentliche Indikatoren einer sozialen Gesellschaft.

Sie sind aus Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz oder auch aus Osteuropa, aus Rumänien etwa oder der Ukraine.

This book provides an accessible introduction to food inequality in the United States, offering readers a broad survey of the most important topics and issues and exploring how economics, culture, and public policy have shaped our current food landscape.

Das Buch befasst sich mit der Geschichte der Massenarbeitslosigkeit in Westeuropa seit den 1970er Jahren am Beispiel der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Großbritanniens.

'Guy Standing's books have, over the years, pieced together a necessary political and intellectual agenda .

This volume is a collection of articles that examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected and intersected with various Southeast Asian contexts in the broad areas of migration, education and demographic policy.

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A lo largo de la obra se analiza el pensamiento de destacados filosofos y se ofrece un panorama amplio sobre como la filosofia ha conceptualizado la relacion entre el soberano y la pobreza a lo largo de la historia.

In For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione questions accepted understandings of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of home.

How might we think about the COVID-19 pandemic from the lens of inequality?

Winner of the 2024 Academics Stand Against Poverty Book of the Year Anthology AwardThe problem of poverty is global in scope and has devastating consequences for many essential aspects of life: health, education, political participation, autonomy, and psychological well-being.

Este libro recoge lo esencial de los textos sobre justicia elaborados durante la última década en el Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad – Dejusticia.

La grave situación de derechos humanos que viven los niños y niñas Wayúu en la Alta y Media Guajira, llevó a que a que la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos ordenara medidas cautelares en 2015 y a que la Corte Constitucional declarara un Estado de Cosas Inconstitucional en 2017.

Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion.

La grave situación de derechos humanos que viven los niños y niñas Wayúu en la Alta y Media Guajira, llevó a que a que la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos ordenara medidas cautelares en 2015 y a que la Corte Constitucional declarara un Estado de Cosas Inconstitucional en 2017.

Our divided politics, unable to solve the challenges we face concerning society's hierarchies of injustice, poverty, endless war, and climate change, are now backtracking to even more division.

¿Cómo podemos pensar la pandemia de la covid-19 a través de la desigualdad?

This book examines the specific manifestations and causes of housing precarity across a diverse range of geographic settings and housing types.

This book examines the specific manifestations and causes of housing precarity across a diverse range of geographic settings and housing types.

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The West has become obsessed with Muslims, constantly classifying them as either 'moderate' or 'extreme'.

The contribution of Western education to the creation of an African-educated elite is well documented.

World Poverty provides an authoritative and balanced examination of the many facets of world poverty and the policy issues surrounding it.

A collection of in-depth essays focused on the health issues facing the poorest populations in the United States as it relates to the common good of all Americans.