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  • Women’s Homelessness in Europe

    Edición de Paula Mayock, Joanne Bretherton ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women’s homelessness. Drawing together work from Europe’s leading homelessness scholars, it presents a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of this acute social problem, including its relationship with domestic violence, lone parenthood, motherhood, health and well-being and ... Leer más

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  • NoNonsense International Development

    Illusions and Realities

    de Maggie Black ...
    "Development" is often misunderstood and can embrace everything from large infrastructure projects to small-scale environmental initiatives. The idea can often mask confusion, contradiction, deceit and corruption. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to know what development actually is. It covers all the key themes and critically suggests ways to bring the poor and marginalised into ... Leer más

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  • Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals

    A Critical Look Forward

    Series series International Studies in Poverty Research
    As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and ... Leer más

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  • Living through Crises: How the Food, Fuel, and Financial Shocks Affect the Poor

    What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis monitoring initiatives carried out by IDS and the World Bank. As such, this is not a book about the causes of ... Leer más

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  • Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest

    Concepts, Policies and Politics

    Edición de A. Barrientos, D. Hulme ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Development
    Social protection is fast becoming an important theme in development policy. This book examines the political processes shaping social protection policies; compares the key conceptual frameworks available for analyzing social protection; and provides a comparative discussion on social protection policies focused on the poor and the poorest. ... Leer más

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  • The European Union and Global Development

    An 'Enlightened Superpower' in the Making?

    Edición de S. Gänzle, S. Grimm, D. Makhan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    An assessment of the capacity of the EU to coordinate actors and policies with regards to global development. The authors argue that the EU and its member states have the potential to act for global development when they are able to improve policy and actor coherence, such as through better linking of bilateral and community programmes. ... Leer más

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  • The Future of Entrepreneurship in Latin America

    Edición de E. Brenes, J. Haar ...
    Series series International Political Economy Series
    This book examines the outlook for Latin American entrepreneurs in the new global environment. Using case studies from across the region, the book highlights liberalization measures nations are adopting to facilitate small and medium size enterprise (SME) creation and growth, and existing barriers that are threatening SME sector gains. ... Leer más

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  • Culture and Immigration in Context

    An Ethnography of Romanian Migrant Workers in London

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Based on ethnographic data, this revealing study presents a humane and realistic account of Romanian economic migrants and their life in the UK, providing a more balanced picture of the way new immigrant groups are depicted and popularly perceived. ... Leer más

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  • Poverty in the United States

    Developing Social Welfare Policy for the Twenty-First Century

    de A. Dobelstein ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book attributes American poverty to consequences 19th Century social welfare policies within an economy stretching to meet its 21st Century economic potential, arguing that American poverty persists as economic and political structures have moved into the world of fiscal planning but social welfare remains in its Depression-era structure. ... Leer más

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  • The Invention of a European Development Aid Bureaucracy

    Recycling Empire

    de V. Dimier ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    A comprehensive analysis of how European development policy was shaped, this book explores the role of former colonial officials in shaping the policy agenda and explores this example of 'recycled empire.' Dimier argues that this post-colonial agenda only changed as a result of pressure from the OECD and World Bank in the 1980s and 1990s. ... Leer más

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  • Class Inequality in Austerity Britain

    Power, Difference and Suffering

    Edición de W. Atkinson, S. Roberts, M. Savage ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to critical interrogation by exposing the interests behind the policy programme pursued and their damaging effects on class inequalities. Situated within a recognition of the longer-term rise of neoliberal ... Leer más

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  • EU Emergency Response Policies and NGOs

    Trends and Innovations

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyses trends and changes in the European Union’s (EU) humanitarian aid policy, by focusing on the performance of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs). NGOs have developed strong relationships with international institutions but have also maintained direct interaction with EU member states. The result is a multi-layered process in which national interests, common values, universal ... Leer más

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