Tag: Poverty

March 7, 2024

The Poverty of the World Rediscovering the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1941-1968 [Audiobook]

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Free Download Sheyda F. A. Jahanbani, Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator), "The Poverty of the World: Rediscovering the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1941-1968"
English | ASIN: B0CVJJFSZ9 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:54:00 | 366 MB
In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of United States foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it. Revisiting a moment of triumph for American liberals in the 1940s, Jahanbani shows how the United States’s newfound role as a global superpower prompted novel ideas among liberal thinkers about how to address poverty and generated new urgency for trying to do so. Their sense of responsibility about deploying American knowledge and wealth as a beneficent force in the world, produced such foreign aid programs as the Peace Corps.
Drawing on a wide variety of archival material, Jahanbani reinterprets the lives and work of prominent liberal figures in postwar American social politics to show the global origins of their ideas. By tracing how American liberals invented the problem of "global poverty" and executed a war against it, The Poverty of the World sheds new light on the domestic impacts of the Cold War, the global ambitions of American liberalism, and the way in which key intellectuals and policymakers worked to develop an alternative vision of United States empire in the decades after World War II.

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March 7, 2024

The Economics of Poverty History, Measurement, and Policy [Audiobook]

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Free Download Martin Ravallion, Bruce Mann (Narrator), "The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy"
English | ASIN: B0CVLHR6FN | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~32:25:00 | 918 MB
There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than thirty years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world’s poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those thirty years. Progress has been slow against relative poverty as judged by the standards of the country and time one lives in, and a great many people in the world’s emerging middle class remain vulnerable to falling back into poverty. The Economics of Poverty reviews critically past and present debates on poverty, spanning both rich and poor countries. The book provides an accessible new synthesis of current economic thinking on key questions: How is poverty measured? How much poverty is there? Why does poverty exist, and is it inevitable? What can be done to reduce poverty? Can it even be eliminated? The book does not assume that listeners know economics already. Those new to the subject get a lot of help along the way in understanding its concepts and methods. Economics lives through its relevance to real world problems, and here the problem of poverty is both the central focus and a vehicle for learning.

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February 4, 2024

Poverty and the Quest for Life Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India

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Free Download Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India By Bhrigupati Singh
2015 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 022619440X | PDF | 2 MB
The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers, officially classified as Rajasthan’s only "primitive tribe." From afar, we might consider this the bleakest of the bleak, but in Poverty and the Quest for Life, Bhrigupati Singh asks us to reconsider just what quality of life means. He shows how the Sahariyas conceive of aspiration, advancement, and vitality in both material and spiritual terms, and how such bridging can engender new possibilities of life. Singh organizes his study around two themes: power and ethics, through which he explores a complex terrain of material and spiritual forces. Authority remains contested, whether in divine or human forms; the state is both despised and desired; high and low castes negotiate new ways of living together, in conflict but also cooperation; new gods move across rival social groups; animals and plants leave their tracks on human subjectivity and religiosity; and the potential for vitality persists even as natural resources steadily disappear. Studying this milieu, Singh offers new ways of thinking beyond the religion-secularism and nature-culture dichotomies, juxtaposing questions about quality of life with political theologies of sovereignty, neighborliness, and ethics, in the process painting a rich portrait of perseverance and fragility in contemporary rural India.

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January 5, 2024

In Levittown’s Shadow Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb (Historical Studies of Urban America)

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Free Download In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Tim Keogh
English | November 3rd, 2023 | ISBN: 0226827755, 0226827739 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 1.66 MB
Highlights how low-wage residents have struggled to live and work in a place usually thought of as affluent: suburbia.

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