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Poverty : Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…""7 The “Made in Québecâ€? Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion: The Complex Relationship between Poverty and Human Rights""""8 Accounting for Rights and Money in the Canadian Social Union""; ""Part 3: Social Citizenship and International Contexts""; ""9 Collective Economic Rights and International Trade Agreements: In the Vacuum of Post-National Capital Control""; ""10 Minding the Gap: Human Rights Commitments and Compliance""; ""11 Enforcing Social and Economic Rights at the Domestic Level: A Proposal""…”
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Poverty : a persistent global reality /
Published 1998Table of Contents: “…Gerdes and Kyle Lyn Pehrson -- United Kingdom / Richard Silburn -- United States of America / James Midgley and Michelle Livermore -- Zimbabwe / Edwin Kaseke -- Poverty in review / David Macarov and John Dixon.…”
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Poverty : a new perspective /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Determinants of Poverty; 3 Poverty Measures as Indicators of Social Welfare; 4 Migration and Poverty; 5 Social Services for Migrants; 6 Appalachian Fertility; 7 Family Planning Services; 8 Modernism and Poverty; 9 Achievement Motivation and Poverty; 10 Communication and Modernization in Appalachia; 11 Poverty: A New Perspective; References; Contributors.…”
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Poverty : a new perspective /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Determinants of Poverty; 3 Poverty Measures as Indicators of Social Welfare; 4 Migration and Poverty; 5 Social Services for Migrants; 6 Appalachian Fertility; 7 Family Planning Services; 8 Modernism and Poverty; 9 Achievement Motivation and Poverty; 10 Communication and Modernization in Appalachia; 11 Poverty: A New Perspective; References; Contributors.…”
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Poverty : malaise of development /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Front cover -- Title pages -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Anne Boran -- Introduction -- Wendy Olsen -- "Poverty" as a Malaise of Development: A Discourse Analysis in its Global Context -- Robert Biel -- Critical Perspectives on Issues of Global Poverty -- Shailen Nandy -- Child Poverty in a Developing World -- David Hall-Matthews -- Unaffordable Risks and Unaffordable Protection: How Poverty Reduction Programmes and Food Security Strategies Can Undermine Each Other -- Kirsten Besemer -- Ethnicity, Poverty and Trade Liberalisation: The Khmer People in Southern Vietnam -- Gerard Clarke -- Faith Matters: Development and the Complex World of Faith-Based Organisations -- Back cover.…”
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Poverty : malaise of development /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Front cover -- Title pages -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Anne Boran -- Introduction -- Wendy Olsen -- "Poverty" as a Malaise of Development: A Discourse Analysis in its Global Context -- Robert Biel -- Critical Perspectives on Issues of Global Poverty -- Shailen Nandy -- Child Poverty in a Developing World -- David Hall-Matthews -- Unaffordable Risks and Unaffordable Protection: How Poverty Reduction Programmes and Food Security Strategies Can Undermine Each Other -- Kirsten Besemer -- Ethnicity, Poverty and Trade Liberalisation: The Khmer People in Southern Vietnam -- Gerard Clarke -- Faith Matters: Development and the Complex World of Faith-Based Organisations -- Back cover.…”
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Poverty : a philosophical approach /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Utility and Norms in the Study of Poverty; V. Equality; Conclusions; References.…”
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Encountering poverty : thinking and acting in an unequal world /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Introducing poverty / Ananya Roy, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, Clare Talwalker -- Encountering poverty / Ananya Roy -- Governing poverty / Ananya Roy -- Modeling poverty / Kweku Opoku-Agyemang -- Fixing poverty / Clare Talwalker -- Teaching poverty / Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales.…”
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The poverty of nations /
Published 2012Subjects: “…Poverty.…”
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SDG1 - No Poverty : Making the Dream a Reality.
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; SDG1 -- No Poverty; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Poverty and Development; 2.1. …”
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Child poverty : challenge and aspiration.
Published 2010Subjects: “…Poverty Great Britain Prevention.…”
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Poverty, Inc. /
Published 2014Subjects: “…Poverty Developing countries.…”
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The end of poverty?.
Published 2010Subjects: “…Poverty.…”
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Poverty capital : microfinance and the making of development /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Small worlds : the democratization of capital and development -- Global order : circuits of capital and truth -- Dissent at the margins : development and the bangladesh paradox -- The pollution of free money : debt, discipline, and dependence in the middle east -- Subprime markets : making poverty capital.…”
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Health and poverty : global health problems and solutions /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…The poor have no face, no voice -- Lamin : roll back malaria -- Pendo : safe motherhood -- Kaddy : family planning -- Maimuna : cervical cancer -- Ramesh : TB and HIV -- Neelum and SIFAT water and sanitation -- Ousman : neglected tropical diseases -- Hassan : undernutrition -- Mariama : new diseases of poverty -- Helena : health financing -- Sanam : cross-border health care -- Revisiting Alma Ata.…”
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Territories of poverty : rethinking North and South /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface: Why Territories of Poverty Now? -- Introduction: The Aporias of Poverty -- Section 1 Programs of Government -- What Kind of Problem Is Poverty? …”
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Poverty in Africa /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…The impact of road infrastructure on poverty reduction in Africa / John C. Anyanwu and Andrew E. …”
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Visions of poverty : welfare policy and political imagination /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…Imagining others in public policy debate -- Cross-purposes and divided populations: the historical contradictions of poverty discourse -- Reducing welfare -- Reorienting welfare -- Repealing welfare -- Imagining an inclusive political community.…”
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Pictures of Poverty The Works of George R. Sims and Their Screen Adaptations.
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Key Concepts in Victorian Culture -- New Media and Poverty -- Work and Poverty -- London and Poverty -- Radical Politics and the Working Class -- Death and Poverty -- 1.3. …”
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The price of poverty : money, work, and culture in the Mexican-American barrio /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…Institutions of poverty -- Income generation in the barrios -- The job market -- The experience of low-wage work -- Networks and work -- Illegal routines -- The consequences of illegal work -- Making ends meet -- Making welfare stigma -- The price of poverty.…”
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Language and Poverty.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Poverty as a Factor in Language Maintenance and Language Death; Chapter 2 Poverty as a Crucial Factor in Language Maintenance and Language Death: Case Studies from Africa; Chapter 3 Language Diversity and Poverty in Africa; Part 2 Language as a Determinant of Access to Resources; Chapter 4 The Impact of the Hegemony of English on Access to and Quality of Education with Special Reference to South Africa; Chapter 5 Econolinguistics in the USA.…”
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Trade and poverty : when the Third World fell behind /
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An end to poverty? : a historical debate /
Published 2004Subjects: “…Poverty History.…”
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Women and Poverty : Psychology, Public Policy, and Social Justice.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the Author; 1: Women and Poverty: An Ongoing Crisis; Women, Poverty, and Rising Economic Inequality; The Feminization of Poverty; Measuring Poverty: The Debates Behind the Numbers; The Feminization of Homelessness; Organization of This Book; Overarching Goals; 2: Structural Sources of Women's Poverty and Homelessness; Sources of Women's Poverty; Caregiving, Motherhood, and the Price of Unpaid Labor; Women in the Paid Labor Market: Progress, Pitfalls, and Poverty; Penalizing Single Motherhood.…”
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Industrial poverty : yesterday Sweden, today Europe, tomorrow America /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Author Biography; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Nature of the European Crisis; 2 Sweden: Austerity Gone Wrong; 3 Industrial Poverty; 4a Europe in 2012: Entering the Economic Wasteland; 4b Europe in 2012: Deeper into the Crisis; 5 Can Austerity Work?…”
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Poverty in the Philippines : causes, constraints, and opportunities.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES, BOXES, AND APPENDIXES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PART 1 Executive Summary; PART 2 Introduction; PART 3 Poverty Profile; PART 4 Causes of Poverty; PART 5 Impacts of Poverty on Economic Growth and Development; PART 6 Institutions and Governance in the Poverty Response; PART 7 Summary of Key Findings and Recommendations; REFERENCES; APPENDIXES; TABLES; 1 Offcial Sources of Poverty-Related Data; 2 Poverty Incidence and Gini Coeffcient, 1985-2000; 3 Magnitude of Poverty in the Philippines Population, 1985-2000.…”
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Poverty of the imagination : nineteenth-century Russian literature about the poor /
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…Introduction: poverty and imagination -- Expelled from the garden of poverty: sympathy and literacy in "Poor Liza" -- The call of poverty: learning to love the low in "Egyptian nights" -- The meaning of poverty: Gogol's Petersburg tales -- Gogol against sympathy -- "The poverty of our literature" -- By his poverty: Dostoevsky and the imitations of Christ -- Conclusion: the wealth of the Russian imaginations.…”
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Poverty in America : an encyclopedia /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…List of entries -- Guide to related topics -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Alphabetical entries -- Documents in the history of American poverty -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Poverty and Health : DAC Guidelines and Reference Series.
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…Investing in Health to Reduce Poverty; Chapter 2. Supporting Pro-poor Health Systems; Chapter 3. …”
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The price of poverty : money, work, and culture in the Mexican-American barrio /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…Institutions of poverty -- Income generation in the barrios -- The job market -- The experience of low-wage work -- Networks and work -- Illegal routines -- The consequences of illegal work -- Making ends meet -- Making welfare stigma -- The price of poverty.…”
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Discourses of Poverty : Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain.
Published 1999Table of Contents: “…""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 Charity, Poverty, and Liminality in the Lazarillo""; ""Lepers and Liminality""; ""Mid-Sixteenth-Century Debates on Poverty: Soto versus Robles""; ""Textual Tensions: The Lazarillo's Ambiguity""; ""2 The Poor in Spain: Confinement and Control""; ""Secularization and Social Containment""; ""Miguel de Giginta's Synchretic Reform Movement""; ""Cristóbal PÃrez de Herrera: Beyond Centralized Confinement""; ""3 The Picaresque as Pharmakos""…”
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Chronic poverty : concepts, causes and policy /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…An Evolving Framework for Understanding Chronic Poverty; Andrew Shepherd -- 3. Understanding Poverty Dynamics and Economic Mobility; Bob Baulch -- 4. …”
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On Poverty and Learning : On Poverty and Learning: Readings from Educational Leadership (EL Essentials).
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Title page; Copyright; TOC; Introduction: The Poor-Not So Very Different, After All; Overcoming the Challenges of Poverty; The Myth of the Culture of Poverty; How Poverty Affects Classroom Engagement; Whose Problem Is Poverty?…”
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Importing poverty? : immigration and the changing face of rural America /
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Poverty in Africa : Analytical and Policy Perspectives.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Identification and Measurement of Poverty""; ""2. Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice""; ""Introduction""; ""Poverty lines in theory""; ""Objective poverty lines""; ""Subjective poverty lines""; ""Poverty lines found in practice""; ""Conclusions""…”
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Poverty and the law /
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…Half Title Page; Half Title verso; Title Page; Title verso; Series Editor's Foreword; Contents; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Introduction: Poverty and the Law; Introduction; The Experience of Poverty; Strategies to Confront Poverty; Access to Justice for the Poor; Overviews; Appendix; Index.…”
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Poverty and Equity : Measurement, Policy, and Estimation with DAD.
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…MEASURING INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL WELFARE; 5. MEASURING POVERTY; 6. ESTIMATING POVERTY LINES; 7. MEASURING PROGRESSIVITY AND VERTICAL EQUITY; 8. …”
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