Tag: Poverty

Free Download Francesco Schettino, "Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty The Structural Inequities of Capitalism, from Lehman Brothers to Covid-19 "
English | ISBN: 9004514422 | 2022 | 220 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In Crisis, inequalities and Poverty, Schettino and Clementi provide an empirical and theoretical analysis of the capitalist crisis of the last two decades with a particular focus on the impact on poverty and inequality.

Free Download Jack M. Hollander, "The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment’s Number One Enemy"
English | 2003 | pages: 251 | ISBN: 0520237889, 0520243285 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M. Hollander contends that our most critical environmental problem is global poverty. His balanced, authoritative, and lucid book challenges widely held beliefs that economic development and affluence pose a major threat to the world’s environment and resources. Pointing to the great strides that have been made toward improving and protecting the environment in the affluent democracies, Hollander makes the case that the essential prerequisite for sustainability is a global transition from poverty to affluence, coupled with a transition to freedom and democracy.

Free Download Chris Jones, "Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State (The State of Welfare)"
English | 1999 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 0415182905, 0415182891 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
In a forward looking appraisal of the welfare state, Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State examines such issues as: *the current dynamics of poverty in Britain, drawing on similar developments in Europe and the US *the major areas of social policy within which this abandonment and demonisation of the poor is taking place *the historical antecendents to this relationship between the state and the poor *the creation and expansion of a ‘welfare’ state that characterised the era of social democracy until the mid-1970s and from the point of view of the poor, was limited and conditional *the ideology and organisation of the New Right *the new terrain on which the struggle over the future of welfare and social policy must take place.

Free Download Brian Warby, "Politics, Poverty, and Microfinance: How Governments Get in the Way of Helping the Poor "
English | ISBN: 1498517528 | 2015 | 178 pages | EPUB | 1219 KB
This book analyzes the effect that government institutions have on whether or not microfinance contributes to poverty alleviation in the context of Latin America. It concludes that political and economic stability, as well as and law order, have a statistically significant impact on microfinance effectiveness. The conditions that promote poverty alleviation are not entirely the same as those upon which major microfinance investors base their funding decisions. The result is that much microfinance funding is going to the wrong places. This means that not only is microfinance not helping the poor, but under the wrong conditions it actually exacerbates poverty. The author arrives at these conclusions through a mixed methods approach, using both statistical analysis and case studies.

Free Download Tawny Paul, "The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain "
English | ISBN: 1108496946 | 2019 | 298 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Eighteenth-century Britain is often understood as a time of commercial success, economic growth, and improving living standards. Yet during this period, tens of thousands of men and women were imprisoned for failing to pay their debts. The Poverty of Disaster tells their stories, focusing on the experiences of the middle classes who enjoyed opportunities for success on one hand, but who also faced the prospect of downward social mobility. Tawny Paul examines the role that debt insecurity played within society and the fragility of the credit relations that underpinned commercial activity, livelihood, and social status. She demonstrates how, for the middle classes, insecurity took economic, social, and embodied forms. It shaped the work that people did, their social status, their sense of self, their bodily autonomy, and their relationships with others. In an era of growing debt and the squeeze of the middle class, The Poverty of Disaster offers a new history of capitalism and takes a long view of the financial insecurities that plague our own uncertain times.

Free Download Anjanette Wells, "Poverty and Place: Cancer Prevention among Low-Income Women of Color"
English | ISBN: 1498522017 | 2020 | 192 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This book examines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequities even in the most advanced society of the world. This volume, while articulating health disparities in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, including East St. Louis, Illinois, seeks to move beyond deficit models to focus on health equity. As cancer disparities continue to persist for low-income and women of color, the promotion and attainment of health equity becomes a matter of paramount importance. The volume demonstrates the importance of place and the historical inequity in socio-environmental settings that have contributed to marked health disparities. Through original research, this volume demonstrates that addressing the causes and contributors to women’s health disparities is a complex process that requires intervention from a socio-ecological framework, at micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of influence. The book highlights critical aspects of a practical multidimensional model of community engagement with important influences of the various levels of research, policy and practice. More pointedly, the authors support a new model of community engagement that focuses on individuals in their broader ecological context. In so doing, they seek to advance the art and science of community engagement and collaboration, while disavowing the ‘parachute’ model of research, policy and practice that reinforces and sustains the problems associated with the status quo. The book concludes with broader national policy considerations in the face of the erosion of the social safety net for America’s citizenry.

Free Download Paola Velasco Herrejón, "Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South "
English | ISBN: 1032528192 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 25 MB
Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South expands our collective understanding of energy poverty and deepens our recognition of the phenomenon by engaging with the lived experiences of energy-poor households across different contexts.

Free Download Tim Keogh, "In Levittown’s Shadow: Poverty in America’s Wealthiest Postwar Suburb "
English | ISBN: 0226827755 | 2023 | 336 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Named one of the best nonfiction books of 2023 by Publishers Weekly!

Free Download China’s Poverty Alleviation Resettlement and Rural Transformation by Long Cheng
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 205 Pages | ISBN : 9819964148 | 32.1 MB
This book aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of China’s Poverty Alleviation resettlement (PAR) particularly under the Link Policy, and further analysing the impacts of PAR on China’s rural transformation from multiple scales (regional and individual) and perspectives (social-economic development, urban-rural interactions and landscape changes), with a combination of multiple approaches including systematic literature review, content analysis, econometrical methods, spatial analysis, Cellular Automata modelling etc. Policy suggestions will also be provided to improve farmers’ sustainable livelihood and resilience coping with the changes of lifestyles due to the resettlement. This book contributes to inspiring and provoking thought among policymakers, researchers, and individuals worldwide grappling with the pressing issue of poverty and its eradication. Understanding the Chinese experience may yield valuable insights that can be adapted and applied in diverse contexts around the globe.

Free Download Mario Polèse, "The Wealth and Poverty of Cities: Why Nations Matter"
English | 2019 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0190053712 | PDF | 14,2 mb
That some cities are vibrant while others are in decline is starkly apparent. In The Wealth and Poverty of Cities, Mario Polèse argues that focusing on city attributes is too narrow. Cities do not control the basic conditions that determine their success or failure as sources of economic growth and well-being.