Poverty and precarity

Fernando Pineda Ochoa construye una vida fincada en el compromiso politico.

Tener presente lo que heredamos del siglo pasado puede ayudarnos a comprender mejor nuestra realidad social y sobre todo a situarnos en el espacio público actual de México, señala Jorge Rendón Alarcón.

La obra de Isabel Núñez refleja algunas estrategias que emplea el Estado moderno neoliberal como forma de control y de acumulación por despojo que viven las mujeres y los hombres jóvenes en el barrio de Tepito.

Profesores y estudiantes de posgrado en filosofia de universidades mexicanas nos hemos dado a la tarea de reflexionar y dar inteligibilidad a los hechos de violencia politica que sacuden hoy en dia al pais.

No sabemos exactamente a qué tono corresponde el "color de la miseria" como se llama en las primeras páginas de esta novela al color hollín.

La comida no es algo aislado, sino un producto de las relaciones sociales, del sistema económico y hasta de los valores de la sociedad.

Francisco, profeta y pastor, desenmascara las causas de la pobreza desacralizando estructuras injustas que han sido divinizadas, y llama a la misericordia como otro modo de justicia.

Hoy vivimos una verdadera contrarrevolución.

La asociación del Estado de derecho y del Estado social debía permitir construir una "sociedad de semejantes" donde, a falta de una estricta igualdad, todos pudieran ser reconocidos como personas independientes y resguardadas contra los avatares de la existencia (desempleo, vejez, enfermedad, accidentes de trabajo, entre otras); "protegidos", en una palabra.

This award-winning history examines the politics of progress in America through a close look at industrial development in Appalachia since WWII.

An extraordinary meditation on experience, writing, and space, My Two Worlds is about a writer lost in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, searching for a park.

This richly textured social history recovers the voices and experiences of poor Egyptians--beggars, foundlings, the sick and maimed--giving them a history for the first time.

The renowned FreewayBlogger, aka Patrick Randall, tells the story of one of his earliest decision to take direct actionhe hears a report of poverty in Mexico, loads up his trusty old VW bus and hits the road with half a ton of clothes, no map, some good tunes and a sense of adventure.

Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers how the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation.

Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world.

Getting inside the heads of the developing world's dictators, warlords, and corrupt politiciansMeet the economic gangster.

Immer weniger Menschen erzielen durch Erwerbsarbeit ein existenzsicherndes Einkommen.

Glovo opera a través de aplicaciones y trata a sus riders como carne de cañón con la que alimenta su algoritmo.

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults.

Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance.

In 1997, Mexico launched a new incentive-based poverty reduction program to enhance the human capital of those living in extreme poverty.

Über Armut wissen wir nichts.

Die polemischen Schriften in diesem Band handeln von der vielschichtigen Beziehung zwischen Geschichte, Philosophie und Politik.

Around the world and across a range of contexts, homelessness among older people is on the rise.

Some Stories Just Can't Be Stopped .

Poverty is perceived as an urban problem, yet many in rural Britain also experience hardship.

Poverty is perceived as an urban problem, yet many in rural Britain also experience hardship.

En el marco del compromiso universitario con la comunidad, subyace la obligación de estudiar y mostrar las causas que influyen en el crecimiento de la pobreza, la falta de agua potable, la educación insuficiente e inadecuada, la destrucción del ambiente, tala indiscriminada de los bosques nativos y las fumigaciones con agrotóxicos, que son, entre otros, elementos que han contribuido al incremento de la desnutrición, enfermedades, contaminación de los ríos, y en definitiva, a que existan más seres humanos excluidos de los derechos esenciales.

Robert Walker provides a critical examination of the promise and reality of SDG1, the United Nations' Social Development Goal designed, among other things, to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.

Robert Walker provides a critical examination of the promise and reality of SDG1, the United Nations' Social Development Goal designed, among other things, to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.

This book examines how people's self-awareness is affected by both internal and external factors amid war and poverty.

This report explains how rising climate and disaster risk is set to increase the vulnerability of Asia and the Pacific region's urban poor and identifies how to engender systemic change to strengthen their resilience.

Wie wollen und werden wir zukünftig arbeiten?

What Works in Development?

A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for Global Development publicationThe plight of the poorest around the world has been pushed to the forefront of America's international agenda for the first time in many years by the war on terrorism and the formidable challenges presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Climate change threatens all people, but its adverse effects will be felt most acutely by the world's poor.

A daunting challenge to the international community is how to go about lifting the world's huge poor population out of poverty.

Despite the recent success of welfare reform in moving people off public assistance and into jobs, most of America's working poor are still unable to accumulate even the most minimal of assets.

It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty.

Americans believe economic opportunity is as fundamental a right as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Former Brookings Senior Fellow Susan E.

A Brookings Institution Press and Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and Sciences-Po, Paris publicationThis thoughtful volume assesses the likely impact of reformed trade policies on the poorest of the poorthose on the bottom economic rungs in developing nations.

In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty.

Extreme poverty exhausts institutions, depletes resources, weakens leadership, and ultimately contributes to rising insecurity and conflict.

Should chronically disruptive students be allowed to remain in public schools?

Because of its potential impact, and, in some cases, the harm it has brought, foreign aid is under the microscope.

This book is about the thousands of people who live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels of New York City.

KINDER AUS ÖSTERREICH - ARBEITER IN DEUTSCHLAND Wanderung, Leben, Arbeit der "Tiroler Hütekinder" anhand genauer Quellenstudien und mündlicher Berichte noch lebender ZeitzeugenIm 19.

Die Erfolgsserie jetzt auch als Buch!

Este libro articula la educación, los saberes sociales y la justicia social en el contexto de América Latina con el fin de mostrar las alternativas que se han tejido a lo largo del continente para amplios sectores de la población sometidos a procesos de exclusión, tanto en los esfuerzos por una educación formal ligados con la escuela y el currículo como en escenarios comunitarios que surgen de la iniciativa de las colectividades y los movimientos sociales, y que posicionan una manera de comprender las injusticias a las que están sometidos.