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Developing countries Developing countries Economic conditions Economic assistance Developing countries Poor Developing countries Poverty Poverty Developing countries Poverty International cooperation Poverty Prevention Women Crimes against Developing countries Case studies Women Developing countries Social conditions Case studiesCollier, Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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Summary: Reveals how impoverished populations have become increasingly subject to assault, forced labor, and other physical abuses, outlining recommendations for implementing workable solutions and overcoming corruption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 HAUSummary: Elderly Nana Chinegowe is left to care for her three orphaned grandchildren. Other than occasional casual work as a day laborer, she has no mean to support them and they often go without food. This film tells the story of Malawi's ultra poor, and investigates the Millennium Development Goals of reducing maternal mortality, hunger, and poverty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Explains how global poverty began with military conquest, slavery, and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals, and forced labor. Today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries. Features expert insights from Nobel Prize winners, acclaimed authors, university professors, government ministers, and the leaders of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ENDSachs, Jeffrey
Summary: [The author] sets the stage by drawing a ... conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then ... he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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Summary: Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right "expert" solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with "benevolent autocrats," leaving dictators with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.9 EASSharma, Ritu.
Summary: "An insider's look at women in poverty, the inner workings of Washington, and how change really happens"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.4 SHAAcemoglu, Daron.
Summary: Evaluates the reasons that some nations are poor while others succeed, outlining provocative perspectives that support theories about the importance of institutions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 ACESummary: "'I see multiple colonial governors,' says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. 'We are held captive by the donor community.' The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry - the business of doing good has never been better. Yet, the results...
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Publisher / Publication Date: www.povertyinc.org 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF POVSummary: Vietnam, one of the few Marxist-Leninist states, is still standing. The Communist Party of Vietnam faithfully represents the rights and interests of the working class and the nation. Just over thirty years after the country was devastated by war, leaving between one and two million dead, its economy is storming ahead. In 1993, poverty levels were at 58%; now that figure has dropped to 12%.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This film explores how Indris Seid Yimer and Emyet Assen Woraki's lives have been transformed since 1984, when their Wollo area community was engulfed in a famine described by BBC journalist Michael Buerk as "the closest thing to hell on Earth." Featuring contributions from entrepreneur Samuel Alemu and financier Ermyas Amelga and showcasing the UNESCO World Heritage site in Lalibela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Banerjee, Abhijit V.
Summary: "Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of the work they do is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, flat out harmful misperceptions at worst. Banerjee and Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.46 BANEasterly, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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Summary: Describes the different ways children in developing countries travel to school, crossing rivers, mountains, and fields of ice, emphasizing the difficulties of accessing education in remote areas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof meet individuals who are doing work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of challenge, transformation and hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2012