"In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables as a social and political category, the historical background which led to such a definition, and…
Evalue les programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté axés sur l'accès à l'éducation et à la santé à partir d'une méthode dite d'expérimentation aléatoire inspirée des essais cliniques pratiqués en médecine.
This book presents the first large-scale examination of the reasons why people fall into poverty and how they escape it in diverse contexts. It draws on personal interviews with 35,000 households in different parts of India, Kenya, Uganda, Peru, and the United States
"Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are concurrently falling into chronic poverty. This book presents the first large-sca…
"While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years, until recent times the bulk of that progress had been made in wealthy countries only. The good news is that we have seen greater progress against poverty in the dev…
The authors report on the yearlong "financial diaries" of villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa--records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money. --from publisher description.
"China's explosive economic growth since 1988 has not resulted in an equal increase of income among all Chinese citizens. The authors explore a range of reasons for the disparity and base their conclusions on strong empirical evidence--especially the 1996 survey conducted by the…
World Development Indicators pp. 169-260.
En la cub.: "Le monde actuel vit un paradoxe inouï. D'un côté, la cause semble entendue : il est plongé dans la crise par les comportements erratiques des marchés financiers. De l'autre, des millions d'êtres miséreux rêvent d'avoir accès au marché, au lieu où, à la ville, ils po…
"Le monde actuel vit un paradoxe inouï. D'un côté, la cause semble entendue : il est plongé dans la crise par les comportements erratiques des marchés financiers. De l'autre, des millions d'êtres miséreux rêvent d'avoir accès au marché, au lieu où, à la ville, ils pourraient tro…
The doctrine of "Islamic economics" entered debates over the social role of Islam in the mid-twentieth century. Since then it has pursued the goal of restructuring economies according to perceived Islamic teachings. Beyond its most visible practical achievement--the establishmen…