Tag: Poverty

Free Download Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, "Poverty Reduction for Inclusive Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia "
English | ISBN: 9811611068 | 2021 | 265 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book provides practical policy recommendations that are useful for developing Asia and for accelerating poverty reduction plans in the rest of the world. Poverty reduction in all its forms remains one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. In developing Asia, rapid growth in countries and sub-regions such as China, India, and Southeast Asia has lifted millions out of poverty, but progress has been uneven. On the other hand, the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the global economic recession that it has caused are pushing millions of people back into poverty. Poverty reduction, inclusive growth, and sustainable development are inseparable, and poverty reduction is the premise for sustainable development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a bold commitment to finish what we started and end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030. However, because of the current global recession, the world is not on track to end poverty by 2030. Given the aforementioned situation, if we plan to achieve the no-poverty target in line with the SDGs, governments need to reconsider their policies and economies need to allocate their resources for this aim. Owing to the importance of the topic, this book provides several thematic and empirical studies on the roles of small and medium-sized enterprises, local businesses and trusts, international remittances and microfinance, energy security and energy efficiency in poverty reduction, and inclusive growth.

Free Download Poverty Alleviation Via Forest Carbon Sequestration: Theory, Empirical Evidence, and Policy Implications
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819981905 | 349 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 9 MB
This book focuses on two issues: the creation of benefits and opportunities for the poverty-stricken people and the trade-off between FCS and poverty alleviation. At the theoretical level, it explains the essential characteristics of PAFCS, analyses the impact mechanism of FCS projects in poverty alleviation, clarifies the stakeholders and their interests and demands, and delineates the dynamic mechanism of FCS projects and poverty alleviation. Based on this theoretical framework, the current situation and challenges for PAFCS in southwest China’s ethnic areas are examined in depth. Project performance was quantitatively measured both for projects themselves and for community farmers. The research emphasises that FCS projects in poverty-stricken areas are not the same as PAFCS, highlights the combination of poverty alleviation theory and ecological compensation theory, and considers PAFCS as an intersection of poverty research and ecological compensation research. Additionally, theresearch suggested that FCS projects are not general poverty alleviation projects, highlights the need for full respect to be granted to the subjective will and value judgement of farmers, including poverty-stricken farmers, takes the lead in focusing on the win-win goal of combating climate change and reducing poverty, and makes a breakthrough in researching some key issues that need to be solved in the practice of PAFCS in the ethnic areas of Southwest China. This book is helpful for global scholars in the field of sustainable development, anti-poverty and forest carbon sequestration, government officials, and organisations in developing countries concerned with agricultural development, forestry economy, and sustainable development, as well as all the people around the world who want to find innovative solutions in the climate negotiations.

Free Download Ryan Thornton, "Franciscan Poverty and Franciscan Economic Thought (1209-1348) "
English | ISBN: 9004535322 | 2023 | 344 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Why would a group of men in the Middle Ages who professed to have nothing to do with money or ownership offer some of the most advanced reflection about those same things?

Free Download Eradicating Energy Poverty: Overcoming ‘Barriers’ to Decentralized Energy Systems in India
by Manashvi Kumar Singh
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811670722 | 474 Pages | True PDF | 37 MB

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.

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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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.

Free Download Entrepreneurship as a Route out of Poverty: A Focus on Women and Minority Ethnic Groups
by Tolu Olarewaju
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031383583 | 160 Pages | True PDF | 2.45 MB

Free Download The Fundamental Institution : Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms
by Megan Birk
English | 2022 | ISBN: 025204438X | 302 Pages | True PDF | 20 MB

Free Download Gottfried Schweiger, "The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Poverty "
English | ISBN: 0367750996 | 2023 | 534 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1203 KB + 57 MB