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Ending global poverty : a guide to what works
Title:
Ending global poverty : a guide to what works
Author:
Smith, Stephen C., 1955-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Palgrave, 2005.
Physical Description:
xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
t. I: Extreme poverty, the cruelest trap. Understanding extreme poverty : poverty traps and the experience of the poor -- The keys to capability : eight keys to escaping poverty traps -- pt. II: Escaping the poverty trap : how the poor are gaining the keys to capability. Health, nutrition, and population -- Basic education -- Credit for poverty reduction, and insuring opportunity -- Bottom-up market development : assets and access for the poor -- Entitlement to new technologies and the capability to benefit from them -- Sustaining the environment for ending poverty -- Social inclusion and human rights for the poor and voiceless -- Community empowerment and development -- Ten strategies for innovation in ending global poverty -- pt. III: What you can do to help. First steps -- Further questions -- Stepping up -- What businesses can do -- Some closing words : the end of global poverty.
ISBN:
9781403965349
Format :
Book