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  • Poverty and Sustainable Development in Asia

    Impacts and Responses to the Global Economic Crisis

    Edición de Armin Bauer, Myo Thant ...
    This joint publication from the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank Institute features selected papers from the September 2009 conference on the social and environmental impact of the global economic crisis on Asia and the Pacific, especially on the poor and vulnerable. The publication is designed with the needs of policy makers in mind, utilizing field, country, and thematic ... Leer más

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  • The End of Poverty

    Economic Possibilities for Our Time

    **"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient . . . Outstanding." —The EconomistThe landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists**Hailed by ***Time***as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work ... Leer más

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  • The Absentee

    Regency Romance Classic

    Just before coming of age, Lord Colambre, the young hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle. His mother wishes him to marry an heiress, Miss Broadhurst, who is a friend of Grace Nugent. However, Colambre has already ... Leer más

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  • Ask Me Why I Hurt

    The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them

    An unforgettable and inspiring memoir of an extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way.Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather, in a 38-foot Winnebago that has been refitted as a doctor’s office on wheels. His ... Leer más

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  • Trapped in America's Safety Net

    One Family's Struggle

    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    A "remarkable" look at the flaws of the social safety net through one family's personal tragedy and the Catch-22 financial disaster that followed (Deborah A. Stone, author of Policy Paradox).When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived—and, miraculously, the baby was born ... Leer más

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  • Looking Away

    Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India

    de Harsh Mander ...
    This feeble blemished light, this dawn mangled by night, this is not the morning we had all so longed for... -Faiz Ahmed Faiz In the two decades since the early 1990s, when India confirmed its allegiance to the Free Market, more of its citizens have become marginalized than ever before, and society has become more sharply riven than ever. In 'Looking Away', Harsh Mander ranges wide to record and ... Leer más

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  • Money for Everyone

    Why We Need a Citizen's Income

    de Malcolm Torry ...
    Due to government cuts, the benefits system is currently a hot topic. In this timely book, a Citizen’s Income (sometimes called a Basic Income) is defined as an unconditional, non-withdrawable income for every individual as a right of citizenship. This much-needed book, written by an experienced researcher and author, is the first for over a decade to analyse the social, economic and labour market ... Leer más

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  • Inhabited

    **"The lives of Quimby's finely drawn characters interweave to produce a panorama as wide and full of light as the near–desert setting."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred reviewMeg Mogrin sells pricey houses, belongs to the mayor's inner circle, and knows more than she's letting on about her sister's death.** Isaac Samson lives in a tent and believes Thomas Edison invented the Reagan presidency. When ... Leer más

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  • Why Fight Poverty?

    de Julia Unwin ...
    Series series Perspectives
    Poverty, and calls to end it, date back centuries. Even in prosperous modern times, despite the huge transformation of society, poverty has persisted. This book looks back at the struggle to end poverty and asks if it is worth it. ... Leer más

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  • Yesterday's People

    Life in Contemporary Appalachia

    The distinctive way of life of the Southern Appalachian people has often been criticized, romanticized or derided, but rarely has it been understood. Yesterday's People, the fruit of many years' labor in the mountains, reveals the fears, anxieties, and hopes that underlie the mountaineers' way of thinking and acting, and thereby shape their relationships in family and community. First published in ... Leer más

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  • China’s Foreign Aid

    60 Years in Retrospect

    Edición de Hou Xiong, Hong Zhou ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes the changes in and development of China’s Foreign Aid Policy and Mechanisms over the past 60 years. It offers readers a thorough introduction to China’s Aid to Africa; its Aid to Southeast Asian Countries; its Aid Policy Toward Central Asian Countries; and its Aid to Latin America and the Caribbean Region, as well as their respective influence.Combining field research and ... Leer más

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  • Poverty Orientated Agricultural and Rural Development

    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between six and seven per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance. This is despite the fact that eighty per cent of the world's poor live in rural agricultural areas and that the poor are disproportionately affected when political, ... Leer más

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