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Author: Orazio P. Attanasio
Publisher: IDB
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781886938977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors analyze the ownership and use of income-generating assets, as well as access to them. Where there are market imperfections, they propose policies to ease the constraints faced by the poor in accumulating the human, physical and social capital they need to generate greater income."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Pat Capponi
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780140277883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Diana Mitlin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0415624665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is compounded by the lack of voice and influence that low income groups have in these official spheres.
Author: Jim Goldberg
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783869306889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoldberg juxtaposes two economic classes--poor and rich--in a way that highlights their similarities as well as their differences. All of the subjects are pictured in their homes, their photographs accompanied by comments that the subjects themselves have written.
Author: Albert Fried
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-02-17
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1351981579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1969, this book presents a one-volume anthology of Charles Booth’s Life and Labour of the People in London, the classic early study of the poor in the urban environment. The original text consists of a vast compendium of descriptions of families, homes, streets, conditions of work, cultural and religious practices, much of it illustrated with charts, maps and statistics — giving the public an idea of the dimensions and meaning of poverty. The editors have selected the extracts in this book for their vividness, readability and intrinsic interest, and their introduction conveys the context of 1880s London — relating Booth’s investigations to contemporary concerns.
Author: Gordon K. Mantler
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013-02-25
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1469608065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King's unfinished crusade became the era's most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration and sheds light on the interdependent relationship between racial identity and political coalition among African Americans and Mexican Americans. Mantler argues that while the fight against poverty held great potential for black-brown cooperation, such efforts also exposed the complex dynamics between the nation's two largest minority groups. Drawing on oral histories, archives, periodicals, and FBI surveillance files, Mantler paints a rich portrait of the campaign and the larger antipoverty work from which it emerged, including the labor activism of Cesar Chavez, opposition of Black and Chicano Power to state violence in Chicago and Denver, and advocacy for Mexican American land-grant rights in New Mexico. Ultimately, Mantler challenges readers to rethink the multiracial history of the long civil rights movement and the difficulty of sustaining political coalitions.
Author: Hans Abbing
Publisher: Peterson's
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9789053565650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unconventional socio-economic analysis of the economic position of the arts and artists
Author: Albert Fried
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-02-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781351981583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1969, this book presents a one-volume anthology of Charles Booth’s Life and Labour of the People in London, the classic early study of the poor in the urban environment. The original text consists of a vast compendium of descriptions of families, homes, streets, conditions of work, cultural and religious practices, much of it illustrated with charts, maps and statistics — giving the public an idea of the dimensions and meaning of poverty. The editors have selected the extracts in this book for their vividness, readability and intrinsic interest, and their introduction conveys the context of 1880s London — relating Booth’s investigations to contemporary concerns.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2019-09-16
Total Pages: 619
ISBN-13: 0309483980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.
Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1610391608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these questions based on years of field research from around the world. Called "marvelous, rewarding" by the Wall Street Journal, the book offers a radical rethinking of the economics of poverty and an intimate view of life on 99 cents a day. Poor Economics shows that creating a world without poverty begins with understanding the daily decisions facing the poor.
