Social Science, Poverty
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Why Poor People Remain Poor
Key Elements for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development
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The empirical evidence why people remain poor and the poverty reduction strategies discussed in this book squarely address popular themes that cut across national and international development agendas, as well as the nebulous and chronic question...
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How to Adopt a Village in Africa
A Story of Joy, Pain, and Purpose
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How to Adopt a Village in Africa: A Story of Joy, Pain, and Purpose is the memoir of how author Sheena Ashdown started a small NGO, the Africa Village Project Association (AVPA). As a young adult, Sheena travelled around West Africa, doing almost...
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The Book on Ending Homelessness
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The Book on Ending Homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While...
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The Professor and the Plumber
Conversations About Equality and Inequality
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Two cousins meet for dinner. Who are they? Why is a plumber arguing with a professor? They begin to discuss one of the great problems of our time - inequality. Can they find solutions? Can they agree on the meaning of equality? Follow their...
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Good Work Done Better
Improving the Impact of Community-Based Non-Profits
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Is it possible that the organizations that serve the most vulnerable people in our communities are merely applying temporary patches? Why are most North American cities unable to deal with the root causes of the social challenges they are...
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The Tangled Cedaring Sublime & Its Knotting InTo NoThing Of Time
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With Fingers Out-Stretched, We Perceive Through The Spaces Between... In Expected Longing For The Winding Of Perspective, As ClockWork And Still-Shadowed Light Shift Behind The Twisting Of A Wrist... To Bend At The Arm, Then To Tilt The Curve......
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Capitalism Is Fallen
A Guide to Economic Principles for Success
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Over the centuries economies have risen and fallen. In modern times, capitalism has delivered great advances, has great potential but now the system is failing. There is growing inequality, the middle class is disappearing and poverty continues....
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Stillness And Echoes
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Finality... ... It is the last dip that gets all toes wet, though throats stay parched long after the shadows fade. And if by some odd chance you look down upon memory and it remembers starlit nights under your watchful eye, perhaps fate may...
