Author: M. Riad El-Ghonemy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-05-10
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1134953372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the use of wide-ranging case studies the author clearly illustrates the impact of schemes intended to re-allocate land in developing countries. Concluding that land reform can play a major part in stimulating rural economies this book explores the extent to which such policies can successfully reduce poverty and increase agricultural growth.
Author: Cynthia M. Duncan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-01-13
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0300210515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her original research, interviewing some of the same people as well as some new key informants. Duncan provides powerful new insights into the dynamics of poverty, politics, and community change. "Duncan, through in-depth investigation and interviews, concludes that only a strong civic culture, a sense among citizens of community and the need to serve that community, can truly address poverty. . . . Moving and troubling. Duncan has created a remarkable study of the persistent patterns of poverty and power."—Kirkus Reviews "The descriptions of rural poverty in Worlds Apart are interesting and read almost like a novel."—Choice
Author: Mohamad Riad El Ghonemy
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discussing countries as diverse as China, Kenya, India, Bolivia, Egypt and South Korea the book offers new insights to anyone working in rural development.
Author: R. López
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2000-09-28
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0333977793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural household surveys - for Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru - and several thematic studies examining land, labour, rural financial markets, the environments, and disadvantaged groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity within the rural economy, the studies characterize three important groups - small farmers, landless farm workers, and rural non-farm workers - and provide quantitative and qualitative analyses of the determinants of household income.
Author: Mohamad Riad El Ghonemy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0415396573
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Author: United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ann R. Tickamyer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2017-08-22
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 0231544715
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →America's rural areas have always held a disproportionate share of the nation's poorest populations. Rural Poverty in the United States examines why. What is it about the geography, demography, and history of rural communities that keeps them poor? In a comprehensive analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, Rural Poverty in the United States looks at access to human and social capital; food security; healthcare and the environment; homelessness; gender roles and relations; racial inequalities; and immigration trends to isolate the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty. Contributors to this volume incorporate approaches from multiple disciplines, including sociology, economics, demography, race and gender studies, public health, education, criminal justice, social welfare, and other social science fields. They take a hard look at current and past programs to alleviate rural poverty and use their failures to suggest alternatives that could improve the well-being of rural Americans for years to come. These essays work hard to define rural poverty's specific metrics and markers, a critical step for building better policy and practice. Considering gender, race, and immigration, the book appreciates the overlooked structural and institutional dimensions of ongoing rural poverty and its larger social consequences.
Author: Jean Dreze (ed)
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 019828635X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part of a major report on world hunger instigated by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, this volume deals with possible solutions to the problem of regular outbreaks of famine in various parts of the world.
Author: Mariano Féliz
Publisher: ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 3838269144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book brings forth debates on the production and eradication of poverty from experiences in the global South. It collects a set of innovative articles concentrating on the way in which poverty, as a social process, has been tackled by popular movements and the governments of various states across the globe. Providing new insights into the limitations of traditional strategies to confront poverty, it highlights how social organizations are working to transform the livelihoods of people through bottom-up struggle and more participatory approaches rather than passively waiting for top-down solutions.