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China's anti-poverty campaign has liberated hundreds of millions of citizens from absolute poverty, offering a compelling model for other developing countries around the world. This book demonstrates the path of China's poverty alleviation and explores the approach and the theor…
This text charts the rise of global poverty as a priority global issue between 1990 and 2015, and its subsequent marginalisation as old themes edged it aside.
An intriguing portrait of African-American activist Geoffrey Canada, creator of the Harlem Children's Zone, describes his radical new approach to eliminating inner-city poverty, one that proposes to transform the lives of poor children by changing their schools, their families, …
What would it take? That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children?not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide…
What Ever It Takes chronicles Geoffery Canada's efforts to change the lives of poor children nationwide. The book details his creation of the Harlem Children's Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about…
A portrait of African-American activist Geoffrey Canada describes his radical approach to eliminating inner-city poverty, one that proposes to transform the lives of poor children by changing their schools, their families, and their neighborhoods at the same time.
Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right "expert" solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them …
Onder het motto 'armoede uitroeien door middel van winst' wil de in bedrijfsstrategie gespecialiseerde hoogleraar bedrijven producten laten onwikkelen voor de vier miljard allerarmsten.
The second volume, Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction: The Application of Ecology in Development Solutions, addresses ways in which ecology can be applied in the context of education, gender relations, demography, markets and governance to address many of the challenges a…
Nutrition has been sidelined for too long. Reducing malnutrition is central to reducing poverty. Malnutrition is implicated in half of all child deaths, and causes much illness and cognitive underdevelopment. As the growing evidence demonstrates, fetal and young children malnutr…