Product Description: The rapid spread of large-scale and innovative social transfers in the developing world has made a key contribution to the significant reduction in global poverty over the last decade. Explaining how flagship anti-poverty programmes emerged, this book provides the first comprehensive account of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries...read more

Product Description: Around 2.8 billion people globally, also known as the "Other Third" or "energy poor", have little or no access to beneficial energy that meets their needs for cooking, heating, water, sanitation, illumination, transportation, or basic mechanical power...read more

Product Description: Economic inequality has recently gained considerable academic attention. However, two important aspects of inequality have not been discussed systematically: its multidimensional nature and the question of what can be done to reverse it...read more

Product Description: There are many problems regarding poverty, inequality and growth in developing countries in Asia and Africa. Policy makers at the national level and at international institutions such as the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and others have implemented various policies in order to decrease poverty and inequality...read more

Product Description: While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor.It is a plague of everyday violence.Beneath the surface of the world’s poorest communities, common violence―like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, police abuse and other brutality―has become routine and relentless...read more

Product Description: A Washington Post bestsellerWhile the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, the hidden plague of everyday violence silently undermines our best efforts to help the poor. Common violence like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, and police abuse has become routine and relentless...read more

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Product Description: 100 Under $100: One Hundred Tools for Empowering Global Women is a comprehensive look at effective, low-cost solutions for helping women in the Global South out of poverty. Most books on this subject focus on one problem and one solution; author Betsy Teutsch instead spreads her net wide, sharing one hundred successful, proven paths out of poverty in eleven different sectors―including tech, public health, law, finance, and more―in a visually striking book full of images of vibrant, strong women farmers, health practitioners, entrepreneurs, and humanitarian tech stars doing exciting, cutting-edge work...read more

Product Description: Fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS) have become an important focus of World Bank Group assistance in recent years as recognition of the linkages between fragility, conflict, violence, and poverty has grown. Addressing issues of recurring conflict and political violence and helping build legitimate and accountable state institutions are central to the Bank Group's poverty reduction mission...read more

Product Description: As the old axiom goes: "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." But . . . teach a woman to fish, and everyone eats for a lifetime. In this firsthand account, Ritu Sharma shares how women can, and are, overcoming the forces that keep them in poverty...read more

Product Description: This book presents the latest evidence from Young Lives, a unique international study of children and poverty. It shows how the persistence of inequality amid general economic growth is leaving some extremely poor children behind, despite the promises of the Millennium Development Goals...read more

In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor people out of poverty?Bhagwati and Panagariya argue forcefully that only one strategy will help the poor to any significant effect: economic growth, led by markets overseen and encouraged by liberal state policies. Their radical message has huge consequences for economists, development NGOs and anti-poverty campaigners worldwide. There are vital lessons here not only for Southeast Asia, but for Africa, Eastern Europe, and anyone who cares that the effort to eradicate poverty is more than just good intentions. If you want it to work, you need growth. With all that implies.

The reign of James I was the real beginning of the Augustan age in England and brought with it enormously higher standards of taste and discernment. When James made his state entry into London in 1604 the new dynasty was widely seen by contemporaries as a restoration of the Golden Age, a renewal of the Roman imperium, celebrating the union of the Kingdoms and the triumph of Protestantism. The following years brought a great outpouring of poetry, music, painting, designs for masques and processions, and sermons, all striving to create a distinctive new Stuart iconography. This book ranges broadly across the arts to analyse imagery and contemporary attitudes. There are chapters on Ben Johnson and Inigo Jones; on Stuart funerals and the religious arts; on Princess Elizabeth's wedding; and on James's triumphal entry. It was an outstanding period for collecting and connoisseurship, and the author describes the artistic enterprises of the Earl of Arundel and the Duke of Buckingham as well as looking at how the arts portrayed the monarch and how James, Charles and Prince Henry patronised arts and letters themselves. This elegantly written book, its text supported by illustration and quotation, brings together much inaccessible material, and will be essential reading for historians and art historians as well as students of literature.

Product Description: Readable, thought-provoking, and beneficial for those who want to comprehend the plight of the rural poor, Hunger and Hope examines the world of those living near, on, and over the edge of poverty in developing countries. Their aspirations, struggles, and daily challenges are revealed with compassion and genuine understanding of the risks they face to sustain themselves and their families...read more

Product Description: While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently undermining our best efforts to help the poor.It is a plague of everyday violence.Beneath the surface of the world’s poorest communities, common violence―like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land theft, police abuse and other brutality―has become routine and relentless...read more

Product Description: Betrayed combines the latest research on poverty and state building with the author's personal observations drawn from years of living and traveling in developing countries and working in places such as China and Nigeria. The thesis explains in practical terms how political, economic, and social leaders in the least developed countries can achieve inclusive development...read more

Product Description: This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem, exploring the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies...read more

Product Description: Poverty alleviation is high on the global policy agenda, its importance being emphasised by its place as the first of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. As a potentially significant source of economic growth in developing countries, tourism may also play a major role in poverty reduction and alleviation under the right circumstances...read more

Product Description: Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world’s urban population and are projected to house almost all its increase between now and 2030. There is a growing recognition that the scale of urban poverty has been overlooked – and that it is increasing both in numbers and in the proportion of the world’s poor population that live and work in urban areas...read more

Product Description: The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. Whether these succeed in having a transformative impact depends not just on their individual brilliance but on whether they can be brought to a scale where they reach millions of poor people...read more

This book explains the basic nature of globalization, how the programs of IMF and World Bank work, the use of slave labour and the injury, disease and abuse that come from unregulated work environments worldwide.

Product Description: With the current global crisis, high levels of volatility in trade, capital flows, commodity prices, aid, and the looming threat of climate change, this book brings together high-quality research and presents conceptual issues and empirical results to analyze the determinants of the vulnerability to poverty in developing countries...read more

Product Description: This book analyzes the determinants of happiness for both the rich and the poor in the developing regions of Asia, Latin America and Africa. Explanatory variables include education, health and income as well as demographic and social variables...read more