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Author Smith, Stephen C., 1955-

Title Ending global poverty : a guide to what works / Stephen C. Smith.

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 FSCC Non-Fiction  339.4 SMI 2005    ---  Available
Description xii, 259 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-250) and indexes.
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.
Subject Economic assistance, Domestic.
Basic needs.
Social planning.
Social policy.
Poor -- Services for.
Armoede.
Sociale politiek.
ISBN 140396534X
Standard No. NLGGC 269333193

 
    
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