Poverty & Despair Vs. Education & Opportunity
by Joseph H Crowley and Albert Colella
Understanding Changes in Poverty (Directions in development)
by Gabriela Inchauste and Joao Pedro Azevedo
Interrogating Urban Poverty Lines
Economic Development, Poverty Alleviation and Governance
by M. Adil Khan
America may be called the "land of opportunity," but countless kids and teens are struggling like young Davids in the urban wilderness, attempting to fight the giant of poverty under insurmountable odds. What could make a difference? The presence of a "Jonathan" in their lives to offer them the life-giving support they need to survive and thrive. The church is the best source of these Jonathans, as they partner with local schools and provide struggling youth with the relational connections that...
One of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's proudest accomplishments was his expansion of the Work Experience Program, which uses welfare recipients to do routine work once done by unionized city workers. The fact that WEP workers are denied the legal status of employees and make far less money and enjoy fewer rights than do city workers has sparked fierce opposition. For antipoverty activists, legal advocates, unions, and other critics of the program, this double standard leads to a tr...
The Poverty Agenda and the Ilo: Issues for Research and Action
Microfinance, Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction in Ghana (Routledge Studies in African Development)
by Aaron Alesane
Slums and Urbanization
India grapples with the paradox of endemic backwardness in over 200 districts while certain sections and sectors are moving at a pace that is making global headlines. This report on Creating Vibrant Public-Private-Panchayat Partnership (PPPP) for Inclusive Growth through Inclusive Governance presents some new perspectives and solutions by bringing together the local governance agenda through the Panchayati Raj, the issue of agricultural development which influences the livelihoods of a vast majo...
London Underworld in the Victorian Period, The: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes
by Henry Mayhew
Welfare reform--including proposals for a guaranteed annual income--is a major item on the American political agenda. Dr. Paglin has systematically revised poverty statistics for 1959-1975 by recalculating them to include the in-kind benefits, which presently are not counted as income in government statistics.
Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism Seb Franklin sets out a media theory of racial capitalism to examine digitality’s racial-capitalist foundations. The Digitally Disposed shows how the promises of boundless connection, flexibility, and prosperity that are often associated with digital technologies are grounded in racialized histories of dispossession and exploitation. Reading archival and published material from the cybernetic sciences alongside ninete...