Author: Estache, Antonio Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This comprehensive study identifies the concepts that are central to assessing the effect of infrastructure reform on the poor, based on a detailed analysis of the effects of a decade of reforms in La...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This report consists of a collection of essays on extreme poverty. The first part of the report deals with what it means to live in extreme poverty, how to reach the very poor, through programs, and i...
Author: Kuehnast, Kathleen Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Better a Hundred Friends than a Hundred Rubles? is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate pu...
Author: McGuire, J. Michael Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Decentralization as a Means of Satisfying Basic Needs: An Economic Guide for Policymakers" by J. Michael McGuire The challenge addressed in this book is designing the degree of decentralization that ...
Author: McGuire, J. Michael / McGuire, Michael J. Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Decentralization as a Means of Satisfying Basic Needs: An Economic Guide for Policymakers" by J. Michael McGuire The challenge addressed in this book is designing the degree of decentralization that ...
Author: N/A Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Development cannot be imposed from the outside. It has to happen from withing. This groundbreaking book from South Asia shows how homegrown experiments can be scaled up to transform the lives of milli...
Author: Sandole, Dennis J.D. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This major new Handbook is a collection of work from leading scholars in the Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CAR) field. The central theme is the value of interdisciplinary approaches to the analysi...
Author: Katz, Michael B. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship. But this major his...
Author: Kaye, Cathryn Berger, M.A. Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A hands-on, get-involved student workbook through which kids learn about the causes and effects of hunger and homelessness, read about what other people are doing to help, explore what their community...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: By integrating their poverty reduction strategies (PRSs), national budgets, and the corresponding reporting processes, low-income countries can strengthen domestic accountability and the implementatio...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The allocation of resources and the design of policies tailored to local-level conditions require highly disaggregated information. Data on poverty at the local level is typically not available becaus...
Description: Imagine ending poverty at home and around the globe in our own lifetimes. With creativity and imagination this book invites us to look at our very ordinary days, from waking up in the morning to goin...
Description: Imagine ending poverty at home and around the globe in our own lifetimes. With creativity and imagination this book invites us to look at our very ordinary days, from waking up in the morning to goin...
Author: Angel, Ronald J. / Lein, Laura / Henrici, Jane M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the health care access of low-income families....
Author: Shaban, Radwan A. Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This report draws lessons for improving the policy design of poverty alleviation schemes in Jordan. The conclusions herein are based on analyses of trends in consumption poverty in Jordan and assessme...
Author: Shaban, Radwan Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Following the 1998 financial crisis, four out of every ten people slipped into poverty, not able to meet basic needs. Luckily, post-crisis economic rebound was impressive and broad-based ? albeit unev...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Brazil is a country of sharp disparities. The gap between the richest and the poorest citizens is one of the largest in the world. Inequality in Brazil is well-known, but its low mobility is not. Unti...
Author: Dubois, Vincent Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Welfare offices usually attract negative descriptions of bureaucracy with their queues, routines, and impersonal nature. Are they anonymous machines or the locus of neutral service relationships? Show...
Author: Rahman, Pk. Md. Motiur Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines rural poverty in Bangladesh. Based on detailed empirical research and surveys of households in Bangladesh, it provides an accurate portrait of the everyday situations faced by the r...
Author: Karelis, Charles H. Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this important book, one of our boldest and most original thinkers charges that conventional explanations of poverty are mistaken, and that the anti-poverty policies built upon them are doomed to f...
Description: In this edition, we focus on the recent report of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa. Launched on March 11 2005, the 450-page document has the usual media-friendly rhetoric, which remi...
Author: Ogilvie, Robert S. Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why do people volunteer, and what motivates them to stick with it? How do local organizations create community? How does voluntary participation foster moral development in volunteers to create a bett...
Author: World Bank, Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "This IEG evaluation, requested by the World Bank's Board of Executive Directors, represents the first independent evaluation of the PSIA experience. The evaluation finds that: • The PSIA approac...
Author: Williams, Brett Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: After September 11, 2001 ordinary Americans were urged to shop. Patriotic shopping would thwart terrorists, celebrate public life, and pull us back from the abyss of recession. We needed to be good ci...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the final book in a three-part series entitled, " Voices of the Poor. " The series is based on an unprecedented effort to gather the views, experiences, and aspirations of more than 60,000 poo...
Author: Lang, Kevin Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often s...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever-growing economic inequality around the ...
Author: Tanner, Michael Publisher: Cato Institute Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book suggests that we should be working toward the total elimination of government welfare programs subsitituting a renewed and invigorated program of private charity and economic opportunity.
