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Free Download Rising Beyond Poverty: A Blueprint for Business Success and Financial Empowerment by JEFFREY STRONG
English | January 4, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CRLD5DCJ | 49 pages | EPUB | 0.35 Mb
This book is a testament to resilience, offering a blueprint for those seeking to turn adversity into opportunity. Whether you’re on the brink of entrepreneurship or striving to transcend the limitations of poverty, "Breaking Boundaries" is your trusted companion on the journey towards financial freedom and unparalleled success in the realm of business.

Free Download The Poverty of Economics: The Philosophical Anatomy of an Empty Rationality by Manuel Sanchis i Marco
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 150 Pages | ISBN : 3031697219 | 2.7 MB
This book improves the alignment of economics with the idea of justice, the first virtue of any social institution, according to Rawls. To this aim, it provides the analytical framework necessary to ensure a just economy. While today’s notion of economics favours the economics of extortion, this book proposes a model that transcends Lionel Robbins’ canonical relationship between ends and means, as it proposes a broader notion of rationality incorporating the range of human attributes. In contrast to Robbins’ economic rationality, economic choices must be based on adequate and good reasons, as Rescher claims, because both the means and the ends require rational deliberation. As a result, the book challenges Robbins’ hope of turning general concepts like scarcity, costs, etc. into universal economic principles guiding human behavior in a vacuum. It disputes the idea that, through the application of the abstract formulation of economic statements unconnected to reality, economics can be rationalized in a morally neutral space, based on empty rationality. By contrasting the three rival versions of economics -formalism (axiomatic), empiricism (technocratic-consequential), and institutionalism (axio-ideological)- the book shows that it is not possible to switch between them as they refer to segmented mental universes of abstraction.

Free Download Poverty, Inequality and Development: Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke By Alain de Janvry, Ravi Kanbur (auth.), Alain de Janvry, Ravi Kanbur (eds.)
2006 | 385 Pages | ISBN: 1402078501 | PDF | 5 MB
Traditionally, there have been two strands in the analysis of poverty, inequality and development – a micro strand that focuses on individual behavior, welfare economics and the measurement of inequality and poverty; and a macro strand that analyzes economy-wide policies and the role of institutions. This unique volume brings together both strands in a series of essays written by leading experts in the field of economic development. Topics include measurement issues, micro-behavior determinants of poverty outcomes, economy-wide models in the SAM-CGE tradition and the institutional framework underlying macro policies. Alain de Janvry teaches agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley.Ravi Kanbur teaches applied economics at Cornell University.

Free Download White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D9R7JLG1 | 2024 | 6 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 382 MB
Author: Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Narrator: Bill Andrew Quinn
A generational work with far-ranging social and political implications, White Poverty promises to be one of the most influential books in recent years. One of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, continue to think of poverty-along with issues like welfare, unemployment, and food stamps-as solely a Black problem. Why is this so? What are the historical causes? And what are the political consequences that result?

Free Download Radwan A. Shaban, "Reducing Poverty Through Growth And Social Policy Reform in Russia (Directions in Development)"
English | 2006 | pages: 314 | ISBN: 0821363409 | PDF | 1,9 mb
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 uneven – across sectors and regions. This title explores the nature of poverty, both nationally and regionally, to identify the groups with a high poverty risk. It then examines growth-poverty linkages through the labor market, as well as the contribution of growth and inequality to the recent poverty reduction. It also considers the expected impact of WTO accession on overall growth and poverty. Finally, it focuses on the scope for improving social policy in ways that will have a direct impact on the poor. Following the 1998 financial crisis, a steep drop in consumption occurred across all income groups, but especially hurting the poor. 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 uneven – across sectors and regions. The report analyzes the main facets and dynamics of poverty in Russia from 1997 to 2003. The analysis was conducted by Russian and international experts as part of a collaborative project by the World Bank, the United Kingdom Department for International Development, and the Russian government team comprising the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, the Goskomstat, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, and the Ministry of Finance. For the first time, this report has been able to utilize the vast micro data of the Household Budget Survey, a Goskomstat survey of 49,000 Russian households, conducted regularly since 1952. In addition, it presents practically the first poverty-related analysis of the data collected under the NOBUS – the Goskomstat survey of householdsA? access to social services, carried out in 2003. The report explores the nature of poverty, both nationally and regionally, to identify the groups with a high poverty risk. Next, the report examines growth-poverty linkages through the labor market, as well as the contribution of growth and inequality to the recent poverty reduction. It also considers the expected impact of WTO accession on overall growth and poverty. Finally, the report focuses on the scope for improving social policy in ways that will have a direct impact on the poor. The last chapter of the report provides recommendations for improved monitoring of poverty outcomes on the basis of the Household Budget Survey.

Free Download Marine Resource Conservation and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Tanzania By Dr. Jennifer K. Sesabo (auth.)
2007 | 136 Pages | ISBN: 3540699414 | PDF | 4 MB
Despite the social, nutritional, economical and environmental importance of Tanzanian coastal areas, yet they are vulnerable to both over-exploitation and degradation of their habitats. Using the data from two coastal villages and econometric methods as well as Stochastic Production Frontier techniques, the book demonstrates the extent which various socio-economic dimensions of rural coastal households influence livelihood pathways, production efficiency and attitudes towards conservation initiatives. Thus, attention to differential patterns of rural coastal households presents more viable possibilities for coastal villages to have conservation-development policies/programs that lead to poverty reduction.

Free Download James H. Treble, "Urban Poverty in Britain 1830-1914"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0416362702, 0815398409 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.5 mb
First published in 1979, Urban Poverty in Britain 1830-1914 examines the plight of the poor in towns as a direct result of industrialization. This valuable study examines the major causes of poverty – low pay, casual labour, unemployment, sickness, widowhood, large families, old age, drink and personal failings – and society’s response to the problem. It also pays attention to the changes in food consumption brought about by migration to the urban areas. Detailed accounts of specific problems and specific situations are combined with a look at the broader questions, and subsequently provides a thorough account of urban poverty in this period.

Free Download Kris Shepard, "Rationing Justice: Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0807134163, 0807132071 | EPUB | pages: 408 | 1.1 mb
Established in 1964, the federal Legal Services Program (later, Corporation) served a vast group of Americans desperately in need of legal counsel: the poor. In Rationing Justice, Kris Shepard looks at this pioneering program’s effect on the Deep South, as the poor made tangible gains in cases involving federal, state, and local social programs, low-income housing, consumer rights, domestic relations, and civil rights.

Free Download Anthony B. Atkinson, "Measuring Poverty around the World"
English | ISBN: 0691191220 | 2019 | 464 pages | AZW3 | 10 MB
The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality―a critically important examination of poverty around the world

Free Download Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, "Farming Systems and Poverty: Improving Farmer’s Livelihoods in a Changing World"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 9251046271 | PDF | pages: 406 | 2.0 mb
Small farmers produce much of the developing world’s food. Yet they are generally much poorer than the rest of the population in these countries, and are less food secure than even the urban poor. Furthermore, although the majority of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2030, farming populations will not be much smaller than they are today. For the foreseeable future, therefore, dealing with poverty and hunger in much of the world means confronting the problems that small farmers and their families face in their daily struggle for survival. Through an examination of a wide variety of farmimg systems across the developing world, this book, co-published with the World Bank, shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify key local, regional and international priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty.