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  • Child Poverty and Social Protection in Central and Western Africa

    Series Book 5 - CROP International Poverty Studies
    In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Livingstone declaration, and the UN Social Protection Floor, this book deals jointly with multi-dimensional child poverty and social protection in Western and Central Africa. It focuses both on extent and types of social protection coverage and assesses various child poverty trends in the region. More importantly, it looks at social ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America

    Rights and Social Protection in Unequal Societies

    Series series
    This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The authors clearly emphasize the need to develop new conceptual and practical avenues that can address ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South

    Series Book 3 - CROP International Poverty Studies
    This book brings forth debates on the production and eradication of poverty from experiences in the global South. It collects a set of innovative articles concentrating on the way in which poverty, as a social process, has been tackled by popular movements and the governments of various states across the globe. Providing new insights into the limitations of traditional strategies to confront ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion

    Series Book 1 - CROP International Poverty Studies
    Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty, youth unemployment, and social exclusion in many developed countries. By critically unraveling ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Health Rights

    by Thomas Pogge ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays on Rights
    Health Rights is a multidisciplinary collection of seminal papers examining ethical, legal, and empirical questions regarding the human right to health or health care. The volume discusses what obligations health rights entail for governments and other actors, how they relate to and potentially conflict with other rights and values, and how cultural diversity bears on the formulation and ... Read more

    $385.00 USD

  • Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America

    Rights and Social Protection in Unequal Societies

    Series Book 2 - CROP International Poverty Studies
    This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The authors clearly emphasize the need to develop new conceptual and practical avenues that can address ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Politics as Usual

    What Lies Behind the Pro-Poor Rhetoric

    Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. To be sure, there are some specially difficult areas disfavoured by climate, geography, local diseases, unenlightened cultures or ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • World Poverty and Human Rights

    Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five.However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Global Tax Fairness

    Edited by Thomas Pogge, Krishen Mehta ...
    This book addresses sixteen different reform proposals that are urgently needed to correct the fault lines in the international tax system as it exists today, and which deprive both developing and developed countries of critical tax resources. It offers clear and concrete ideas on how the reforms can be achieved and why they are important for a more just and equitable global system to prevail. The ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Absolute Poverty and Global Justice

    Empirical Data - Moral Theories - Initiatives

    Series series Law, Ethics and Economics
    Absolute poverty causes about one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease. Developing universalizable norms aimed at tackling absolute poverty and the complex and multilayered problems associated with it, this book considers the levels, trends and determinants of absolute poverty and global inequality. Examining whether much faster ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Pro-Poor Mountain Tourism

    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    This timely and interdisciplinary book is the first to examine mountain tourism and local communities with a pro-poor lens. By drawing on human geography, political and social science, ethics and moral philosophy and empirical research, the volume explores how mountain tourism can be used to fight poverty and inequality in mountain regions.Mountain tourism represents a growing mass tourism ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Giving Well

    The Ethics of Philanthropy

    So long as large segments of humanity are suffering chronic poverty and are dying from treatable diseases, organized giving can save or enhance millions of lives. With the law providing little guidance, ethics has a crucial role to play in ensuring that the philanthropic practices of individuals, foundations, NGOs, governments, and international agencies are morally sound and effective. In Giving ... Read more

    $44.99 USD