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Un Millennium Development Library: Halving Hunger: It Can Be Done
ISBN: 9781844072200 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Halving Hunger examines current world progress towards eliminating hunger, and calls for the implementation of seven recommendations in the areas of: political action, national policy reforms, increased agricultural productivity for food insecure farmers, improved nutrition for the chronically hungry, productive safety nets for the acutely hungry, improved rural incomes and markets, and restoration and conservation of natural resources essential for food security. The strategy includes over 40 interventions that poor countries can select and incorporate into individual action plans. Halving...
Halving Hunger examines current world progress towards eliminating hunger, and calls for the implementation of seven recommendations in the areas of: ...
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The Magic of Africa
ISBN: 9781847474636 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description The 'Magic of Africa' is divided into the following sub-sections: Description The 'Magic of Africa' is divided into the following sub-sections: |
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Food Sovereignty: Towards Democracy in Localized Food Systems
ISBN: 9781853396106 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food Sovereignty is the new policy framework proposition for the governance of food and agriculture. It embraces policies not only for localising the control of production and markets, but also for the Right to Food, people's access to and control over land, water and genetic resources, and for promoting the use of environmentally sustainable approaches to production. It addresses the current problems of hunger and malnutrition, as well as rural poverty, that have become a priority challenge for international policy. The latest FAO figures show the number of chronically hungry in developing...
Food Sovereignty is the new policy framework proposition for the governance of food and agriculture. It embraces policies not only for localising the ...
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Voices from the Margins
ISBN: 9781853396243 / Angielski / Miękka / 101 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Practical Action has been introducing consensus-based planning approaches in villages that are poor even by Bangladesh standards, where 90% of people live under the poverty line and over 60% are illiterate. These methods work on raising the voice and confidence of the poor at the local level within their communities, and the results have been spectacular--opening up new income generation and resource management and influencing opportunities for marginalized communities in flood-prone areas.
Highly useful in countries that reject the role of NGOs in governance or human rights, and... Practical Action has been introducing consensus-based planning approaches in villages that are poor even by Bangladesh standards, where 90% of people ...
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Small-Scale Mining, Rural Subsistence, and Poverty in West Africa
ISBN: 9781853396359 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth analysis of the small-scale mining sector in West Africa, this volume examines its link with poverty, economic contribution and the dynamics of its operations and dependent communities.
In recent decades, Africa' poverty-driven artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has attracted significant donor aid. To date, millions of dollars have been pledged toward the design, redesign and implementation of efficient equipment at sites, providing industry support services and improving the quality of life of subsistence operators. The majority of initiatives, however, have... An in-depth analysis of the small-scale mining sector in West Africa, this volume examines its link with poverty, economic contribution and the dynami...
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Bridging the Finance Gap in Housing and Infrastructure
ISBN: 9781853396397 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * Documents the radical changes in methodology of one Northern NGO (Homeless International) over twenty years of providing support to organizations of the urban poor across the globe.
* Present extensive excerpts from conventional small-scale grants to collaborative design of new financial products - in so that other agencies may build on the lessons learned. As poverty becomes increasingly concentrated in urban areas of the developing world, the need to access new sources of finance for slum upgrading, resettlement, and infrastructure provision becomes correspondingly... * Documents the radical changes in methodology of one Northern NGO (Homeless International) over twenty years of providing support to organizations of...
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State They're in: 2nd Ed Pb: An Agenda for International Action on Poverty in Africa
ISBN: 9781853396403 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book draws on a substantial body of research to argue that much thinking on Africa--from both official donors and from international NGOs alike--is flawed, because that thinking either does not recognize or does not draw out the implications of the central role of politics and the state in Africa's development problems.
In almost all African countries the political elites are uninterested in leading a development process. Western donor countries and institutions have largely turned a blind eye to this situation, and indeed aid has become an important resource in maintaining... The book draws on a substantial body of research to argue that much thinking on Africa--from both official donors and from international NGOs alike--i...
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The Shame of It: Global Perspectives on Anti-Poverty Policies
ISBN: 9781447308706 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We have long recognized that poverty carries a tremendous feeling of shame. However, few have let this overwhelming fact actually influence the making and implementation of anti-poverty policies. "The Shame of It" demonstrates that in order for anti-poverty policies to be truly effective, they must take into account the psychological trauma that poverty creates. Drawing on pioneering empirical research from a diverse group of countries, including the United Kingdom, Uganda, Norway, Pakistan, India, South Korea, and China, the contributors outline core principles that can bring policy makers...
We have long recognized that poverty carries a tremendous feeling of shame. However, few have let this overwhelming fact actually influence the making...
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The Milltown Boys Revisited
ISBN: 9781859738245 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do some young people "escape" from a life of crime while others remain in it? This landmark book is the first longitudinal study of deviancy that gets to the heart of this question. During the mid-1970s, Howard Williamson studied a group of young offenders. Twenty-five years later, Williamson decided to track them down in order to find out how their teenage years had shaped their futures. The result is an extraordinary account of how many of these young people "beat all the odds" while others remained embedded in criminality. A celebration of success as much as a confirmation of... How do some young people "escape" from a life of crime while others remain in it? This landmark book is the first longitudinal study of deviancy th... |
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A Ragged Schooling: Growing up in the classic slum
ISBN: 9781901341010 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that surrounded them. Sharing lively games along the railways lines and canal banks, their lives were rich in experience and comradeship.
With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from ...
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Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography
ISBN: 9781902593784 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A bestseller in 1924, this vivid piece of outlaw history has inexplicably faded from the public consciousness. Jim Tully takes us across the seamy underbelly of pre-WWI America on freight trains, and inside hobo jungles and brothels while narrowly averting railroad bulls (cops) and wardens of order. Written with unflinching honesty and insight, "Beggars of Life" follows Tully from his first ride at age thirteen, choosing life on the road over a deadening job, through his teenage years of learning the ropes of the rails and -living one meal to the next. Tully s direct, confrontational... A bestseller in 1924, this vivid piece of outlaw history has inexplicably faded from the public consciousness. Jim Tully takes us across the seamy ... |
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Faces of Poverty : Life in Gata, Walo
ISBN: 9781904855705 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This paper tells the story of four families in Gta in South Wlo, a Muslim community in rural Ethiopia with a long history. It depicts their lives during a recent period of drought and famine, where the effects of the killer famine of 1984 are still felt. The story provides a rare glimpse of the human suffering behind the grim statistics of poverty and famine in the country. The stories tell of their trading activities and links with the district town, providing insights into the relationships, tensions, and bonds of reciprocity between urban and rural communities.
This paper tells the story of four families in Gta in South Wlo, a Muslim community in rural Ethiopia with a long history. It depicts their lives duri...
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Globalisation, Inequality and the Commodification of Life and Wellbeing
ISBN: 9781905068012 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wealth and money, which are meant to be sources of human happiness and facilitators of good social relations has instead become a monstrosity beyond human control. The unbridled quest to make money and accumulate wealth as well as assign social signification on the basis of the outcome of individuals' efforts in the process has ended up distorting existence and the meaning of being human itself. This work brings together a collection of very provocative and challenging articles that confront the problems created by wealth. Can there be happiness when wealth is increasingly concentrated in...
Wealth and money, which are meant to be sources of human happiness and facilitators of good social relations has instead become a monstrosity beyond h...
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Monitoring Child Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: Achievements and Challenges
ISBN: 9781919798646 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study evaluates qualitatively the government's programming and budgeting for children rights to basic nutrition, health services, social services and education thus far, measured against the legal obligations to realise these rights as set out in the constitution. It additionally provides valuable data disaggregating resources expended on children as a proportion of the overall budget. Further concerns are popular participation in realising children's rights, children's own perceptions of government efforts, and the legal instruments to enforce children's unqualified constitutional...
This study evaluates qualitatively the government's programming and budgeting for children rights to basic nutrition, health services, social services...
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Inheriting Poverty?
ISBN: 9781920118242 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. South African legislation, as well as international conventions like the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child which have been ratified by South Africa, indicate shared and increasing acknowledgement of the importance of protecting and promoting children's rights. In South Africa these remain confined to principle and policy. In practice, poverty, unemployment, child labour, violence and abuse, inadequate policy support and serviced, ignorance and above all HIV/AIDS pose a real threat to the realisation and enjoyment of these...
South African legislation, as well as international conventions like the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Right...
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The Digital Divide in Africa
ISBN: 9783836425629 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Half of the worlds population has never made or received a phone call and perhaps the same half lives on less than $2 a day. If this is not just a statistical coincidence, is there causality between the lack of telecommunication and poverty? The digital divide is the discrepancy between Africa and other nations in the usage of ICTs, such as telephony and the internet. The goal of this book, is to highlight "which factors influence a nations capacity to bridge the Digital Divide". It will give an elaborate introduction to the Digital Divide and the concepts Information Society and Information...
Half of the worlds population has never made or received a phone call and perhaps the same half lives on less than $2 a day. If this is not just a sta...
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Psychonomics and Poverty: Toward Governance and a Civil Society
ISBN: 9789766400866 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Psychonomics and Poverty: Towards Governance and a Civil Society, Ramesh Deosaran describes a novel, multidisciplinary approach to the study of poverty. He uses what he terms "photosociology" as a tool for painstaking research, and he presents "profiles of poverty" which effectively match the stark faces of the poor to statistical data.
In Psychonomics and Poverty: Towards Governance and a Civil Society, Ramesh Deosaran describes a novel, multidisciplinary approach to the study of pov...
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Money with a Mission Volume 1: Microfinance and Poverty Reduction
ISBN: 9781853396144 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditionally the primary function of NGOs has been confined to mitigating the effects of war by providing humanitarian aid and protection on the peripheries of violent conflict. However, in recent years there has been an increased focus on the impact of humanitarian aid in general, and to a lesser extent on the impact of aid on conflict and peace dynamics.
Drawing on research and contemporary writing on conflict, NGOs, and peacebuilding, this book provides an overview of key theoretical and policy debates surrounding the changing role of NGOs and donors in conflict. It also highlights... Traditionally the primary function of NGOs has been confined to mitigating the effects of war by providing humanitarian aid and protection on the peri...
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Money with a Mission Volume 2: Managing the Social Performance of Microfinance
ISBN: 9781853396151 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a description of the experiences of twelve microfinance organizations in four global regions. It reveals how they developed systems to reach social goals, improve their services, and have an impact on poverty. It uniquely combines a sound academic foundation with practical experience.
This volume provides a description of the experiences of twelve microfinance organizations in four global regions. It reveals how they developed syste...
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The Welfare Family and Mass Administrative Justice
ISBN: 9780595476466 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Government welfare benefits touch millions-from individuals to corporations, large and small. Here, Dr. Baum explores one aspect of government welfare, both Federal and state, aid to families with dependent children. The history of that program is set out. Some of the major issues continue to be raised.
Government welfare benefits touch millions-from individuals to corporations, large and small. Here, Dr. Baum explores one aspect of government welfare...
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