Resources Tagged: Poverty

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  1. Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty

    Mexican case studies in the culture of poverty. For a considerable number of years, Oscar Lewis has been experiementing with, and perfecting, an important technique for ethnological reportage. This is the minute and as nearly as possible total observation of the daily life of single family...
    Rural Conditions Case Studies Poverty Preventing Poverty

  2. Full House: Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity

    In this volume, the authors propose a global strategy to restore food security and a budget to implement it. Their global food security budget calls for stepped-up expenditures on both sides of the food/population equation. It includes investments not only to provide family planning services to...
    Environmental Aspects Environmental Mana... Pollution Poverty Human ecology Food Supply Birth Control Overpopulation

  3. The global war against the poor

    This book is about world poverty, its causes and consequences.
    Poverty

  4. The Oxfam Poverty Report

    This report outlines our views on some of the policy changes which are needed to eradicate poverty.As a non-governmental organisation working in over 70 developing countries, Oxfam is acutely aware that there are no easy answers when it comes to development. Much of what we say in this report is...
    Government Policy Economic Assistance Economic History Developing countries Poverty

  5. Poverty in the developing countries, 1985: address delivered on January 11, 1985, at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia

    This publication contains two articles which will alert you to the current emergency that wass gripping much of the continent of Africa in 1985.
    Poverty Developing countries

  6. Just One Planet Poverty, Justice and Climate Change

    2006-01-01 * A call to arms to take care of the earth―because we have “just one planet” * Climate change threatens the survival of cultures, species and whole ecosystems * Demonstrates that if we fail to take action on climate change, we run the risk of failing on poverty reduction, which means abandoning...
    Climate Change Global Temperature... Poverty Developing countries

  7. Uprooting poverty in South Africa

    This publication, excerpted from Dr. Wilson's and Dr. Ramphele's recent book, Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge, provides a searching look at the system of apartheid and its systematic denial of opportunity for Africans in South Africa; a framework of thinking to guide the...
    Poverty Economic History Social conditions

  8. World Hunger: 12 Myths

    In this completely revised and updated edition of the most authoritative book on world hunger, three of our foremost experts on food and agriculture expose and explode the myths that prevent us from effectively addressing the problem. Drawing on and distilling the extensive research of the...
    Social conditions Poverty Nutrition Policy Agriculture and State Food Supply

  9. Voices from the Field: Science for the Poor in Kenya

    This book, produced for the Annual General Meeting (AGM 2003) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, highlights the role of national and international agricultural research in the reduction of poverty and food insecurity in research - Kenya's 22 million small-scale...
    Food Insecure Poverty

  10. Mysteries and Myths: De Soto, Property and Poverty in South Africa

    This case reveals that individual ownership can sometimes reduce de facto security of tenure and undermine socio-economic status. It provides clear evidence of how such settings often 'revert' to informality. From a policy perspective, it shows that intervention must differentiate 'the poor' in...
    Poverty Property Rights