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Doing Without: Women and Work After Welfare Reform
ISBN: 9780816525126 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996 was applauded by many for the successes it had in dramatically reducing the number of people receiving public assistance, most of whom were women with children. Today, however, more than a decade later, these successes seem far less spectacular. Although the total number of welfare recipients has dropped by more than fifty percent nationwide, evidence shows that poverty has actually deepened. Many hardworking women are no better off for having returned to the workplace. In Doing Without, Jane Henrici brings together nine contributions to tell the...
The welfare reform legislation enacted in 1996 was applauded by many for the successes it had in dramatically reducing the number of people receiving ...
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Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work: One State's Successful Experiment
ISBN: 9780816640942 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most controversial and divisive issues in America, welfare reform stirs endless legislative study and heated debate but often results in political gridlock. Such was the case in the late 1980s when the Minnesota legislature came to a stalemate on the issue. In response, Governor Rudy Perpich gathered a group of citizen experts to redesign welfare, and a remarkable burst of innovation resulted in a groundbreaking and stunningly successful pilot welfare program. Intended to lift families out of poverty, as well as to move them off assistance, the Minnesota Family Investment Program...
One of the most controversial and divisive issues in America, welfare reform stirs endless legislative study and heated debate but often results in po...
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Safety Net Programs and Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Cross-Country Experience
ISBN: 9780821338902 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The need for social safety nets has become a key component of poverty reduction strategies. Over the past three decades several developing countries have launched a variety of programs, including cash transfers, subsidies in-kind, public works, and income-generation programs. However, there is little guidance on appropriate program design, and few studies have synthesized the lessons from widely differing country experiences. This report fills that gap. It reviews the conceptual issues in the choice of programs, synthesizes cross-country experience, and analyzes how country- and...
The need for social safety nets has become a key component of poverty reduction strategies. Over the past three decades several developing countries h...
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101,34 |
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Poverty, Social Services, and Safety Nets in Vietnam
ISBN: 9780821340240 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Voices of the Poor: Poverty and Social Capital in Tanzania
ISBN: 9780821340615 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Studies and Monographs Series No. 20. This study describes the practices and processes of participatory methods that tap the knowledge the poor have about their own reality. The Participatory Poverty Assessment uses methods to measure and facilitate "listening to the poor." Participatory tools show how the poor view poverty, inflation, and other economic and social trends. In addition, the study established the high economic returns to village social capital, measured by density of groups with particular characteristics.
Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Studies and Monographs Series No. 20. This study describes the practices and processes of partici...
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Can the Poor Influence Policy?: Participatory Poverty Assessments in the Developing World
ISBN: 9780821350003 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of this book details how to include the poor using the Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) method. This method was developed by the World Bank in partnerships with NGOs, government, and academic institutions and has been implemented in over 60 countries worldwide during the last decade. Participatory Poverty Assessments are highlighting the potentially significant role the poor can play in analyzing poverty, developing interventions for poverty reduction, and evaluating the effect of projects and policies. This book also draws on new PPA case examples.
The second edition of this book details how to include the poor using the Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) method. This method was developed by ...
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Accounting for Poverty in Infrastructure Reform: Learning from Latin America's Experience
ISBN: 9780821350393 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1990's a number of countries in Latin America including Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, developed policies focused on utility sector liberalization through increased private sector participation. This focus resulted from the recognition that overall quality and availability of services were inadequate. Infrastructure reform is inexorably linked to poverty alleviation and therefore must be carefully constructed and enacted. This book provides practical guidelines and options for infrastructure reform that result in access and affordability for the poor. Accounting for Poverty in...
During the 1990's a number of countries in Latin America including Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, developed policies focused on utility sector liberali...
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From Many Lands: Voices of the Poor
ISBN: 9780821350492 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'From Many Lands' gives us an opportunity to meet the invisible people, see their invisible world, and hear their voices as they talk among themselves and talk to us. What this will mean to us, that is up to us to decide. Voices of the Poor is a multicountry research initiative to understand poverty from the standpoint of the poor. The Voices of the Poor project was undertaken to inform the World Bank's activities and the World Development Report 2000/2001. There are three books from this project:... 'From Many Lands' gives us an opportunity to meet the invisible people, see their invisible world, and hear their voices as they talk among themsel... |
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Infrastructure for Poor People: Public Policy for Private Provision
ISBN: 9780821353424 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the last two decades many governments have allowed private companies to offer infrastructure services which were previously provided only by state-owned businesses. In some cases they have privatized state-owned business and in others, they have permitted private firms to invest in and operate those businesses under lease contracts or long-term concessions. In still other instances, private firms have been allowed to compete alongside former government monopolists. 'Infrastructure for Poor People' examines the data on infrastructure and the poor in developing countries, and discusses...
During the last two decades many governments have allowed private companies to offer infrastructure services which were previously provided only by st...
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Moving Out of Poverty: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility
ISBN: 9780821371114 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering a vast body of conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic and social mobility, it takes the reader on compelling journeys of multigenerational accounts of three villages in Kanartaka, India, twelve years in the life of a street child in Burkina Faso, and much more. Leading development practitioners and scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new...
This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering a vast body of conceptual and em...
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Poverty and Regional Development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
ISBN: 9780821371619 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regional economic development is an interest of policymakers throughout the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. One of its principal aims is to reduce poverty in lagging regions by stimulating local economic growth. However, problems exist with this approach. First, it may miss the target. Although geographical concentrations of poverty exist, poor people also live in regions that are on average rich. Second, the sources of the problem may be misdiagnosed. Poverty is not only related to where people are, but to who people are. In ECA, poverty is associated with low levels of education and...
Regional economic development is an interest of policymakers throughout the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. One of its principal aims is to redu...
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Moving Out of Poverty (Volume 3): The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India
ISBN: 9780821372173 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'To take birth as a poor man itself is a big punishment. We are facing many difficulties and there is none to support us. We cannot die also. ... Our condition is like applying perfumed oil to mustache when there is no food to eat.' - Male focus group discussion, Appipuram, Andhra Pradesh India has experienced accelerating growth in the last 10 years, yet millions of Indians remain mired in poverty. Why? Most books on growth and poverty reduction are dominated by the perspectives of policy makers and academic experts. 'Moving Out of Poverty: The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India'...
'To take birth as a poor man itself is a big punishment. We are facing many difficulties and there is none to support us. We cannot die also. ... Our ...
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Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness
ISBN: 9780822338826 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "White trash." The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But where did this stigmatizing phrase come from? And why do these stereotypes persist? Matt Wray answers these and other questions by delving into the long history behind this term of abuse and others like it. Ranging from the early 1700s to the early 1900s, "Not Quite White" documents the origins and transformations of the multiple meanings projected onto poor rural whites in the United States. Wray draws on a wide variety of primary sources literary texts, folklore, diaries and...
"White trash." The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But where did this stigmatizing phra...
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The State and the Poor in the 1980s
ISBN: 9780865690646 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Poverty Wars: Reconnecting Research with Reality
ISBN: 9780868408101 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Saunders argues that as a nation Australia can afford to eliminate financial poverty. The fact that we don't do so is a matter of choice, not affordability--as the experience of other countries demonstrates. In challenging this idea, this book focuses on how looking at poverty differently can help to make a world without poverty a practical reality.
Saunders argues that as a nation Australia can afford to eliminate financial poverty. The fact that we don't do so is a matter of choice, not affordab...
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Homelessness in New England-Ne
ISBN: 9780870238253 / Angielski / Miękka / 811 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This special issue of the New England Journal of Public Policy addresses the particular needs and concerns of homeless people in the six New England states.
This special issue of the New England Journal of Public Policy addresses the particular needs and concerns of homeless people in the six New England s...
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Principles and Practices
ISBN: 9780874176070 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just beyond Las Vegas's neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each year to enjoy its gambling and entertainment, the city's homeless people are largely invisible, segregated from tourist areas because it's good business. Now, through candid discussions with homeless men, analysis of news reports, and years of fieldwork, Kurt Borchard reveals the lives and desperation of men without shelter in Las Vegas. Borchard's account offers a graphic, disturbing, and profoundly moving picture of life on Las Vegas's mean...
Just beyond Las Vegas's neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each y...
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The Word on the Street: Homeless Men in Las Vegas
ISBN: 9780874177237 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just beyond Las Vegas s neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each year to enjoy its gambling and entertainment, the city s homeless people are largely invisible, segregated from tourist areas because it s good business. Now, through candid discussions with homeless men, analysis of news reports, and years of fieldwork, Kurt Borchard reveals the lives and desperation of men without shelter in Las Vegas.
Borchard s account offers a graphic, disturbing, and profoundly moving picture of life on Las Vegas s... Just beyond Las Vegas s neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each y...
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82,03 |
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Poverty & the Public Utility: Building Shareholder Value Through Low-Income Initiatives
ISBN: 9780878148837 / Angielski / Twarda / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the low-income U.S. population, the continuing escalation of utility expense exacerbates financial distress and challenges the quality of utility revenues. But research has shown that the poor, in spite of having energy burdens four times that of the average residential household, exhibit no worse credit behavior than any other customer class. People with low incomes often sacrifice food, medicine, and health just to maintain utility service. Working multiple low-paying jobs or living on a fixed retirement income, these individuals are still found helping others in the community. The...
For the low-income U.S. population, the continuing escalation of utility expense exacerbates financial distress and challenges the quality of utility ...
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323,47 |
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The House on Henry Street
ISBN: 9780887383847 / Angielski / Twarda / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nearly one hundred years after the Henry Street Settlement was founded, this venerable institution still serves the people of the lower East Side of New York. Much of the credit for its survival may be attributed to its founder, Lillian Wald, who is also the author of this book. The House on Henry Street was written at the height of the Progressive Era, when economic prosperity and an expansive spirit were pervasive, but when poverty and misery were the lot of countless new immigrants and families in urban areas. This book is the story of the early years of the Settlement... Nearly one hundred years after the Henry Street Settlement was founded, this venerable institution still serves the people of the lower East Side ... |
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