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"This book investigates the relationship between the character of political regimes in Russia's subnational regions and the structure of earnings and income. Based on extensive data from Russian official sources and surveys conducted by the World Bank, the book shows that income…
Indigenous people constitute a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. They are more likely than other groups of a country's population to be poor. This book documents their socioeconomic situation, and trends over the last decade, and shows that while progress…
Indigenous people constitute a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. They are more likely than other groups of a country's population to be poor. This book documents their socioeconomic situation, and trends over the last decade, and shows that while progress…
"Indigenous peoples constitute a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. They are more likely to be poor than any other group. This book documents their socioeconomic situation, and trends over the last decade, and shows that while progress has been achieved in…
Schooling, society and curriculum
by Moore, Alex
fromFoundations and futures of education
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Type: Book
In recent years, much curriculum debate has focused less on wider issues related to the purpusses of education and more on the contet and 'delivery' of school curricula themselves, including new and revised national curricula. Schooling, Society and Curriculum seeks to return cu…
Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the nation look? In Cape Town, is hardening inequality under conditions of neoliberal globalization actually reproducing the repressive governance of the apartheid era? By exploring issues …
"Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new wor…
Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession.
Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new work…
More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.S. dollars per person per day. In this book the author explains how the poor work, how they have improved their self-employment earning opportunities, how poor-country governments can stimulate more i…
"This ... book takes as its starting point a central question for nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and philosophy: how to represent the poor? Covering the period from the publication of Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857 to the composition of Benjamin's final texts in the 193…