La 4ème de couv. indique : "Through the efforts of increasingly global and media-aware NGOs, people in the west are bombarded with images of poverty, suffering and inequality. Representations of Global Poverty is the first comprehensive study of the communications and imagery us…
The analysis of urban poverty has traditionally been dominated by economic approaches, often neglecting the social questions arising from poverty. This book seeks to redress the balance and is based on both quantitative and qualitative data collected from different slums in Dhak…
Faith-based development organizations have become a central part of the lives of the women of rural Rajasthan, and have come to represent an important aspect of individual and collective identities. This title presents a study of the contradictory role of development organisatio…