Social Science, Social Classes
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Reboot Required
To Recover Our Humanity
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Reboot Required offers a penetrating look at the issues that make us less happy today in spite of so-called social and economic development. Written by octogenarian Penny Gumbert, this book explores how we can reverse the current trend and become...
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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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Democratizing Finance
Origins of the Community Development Financial Institutions Movement
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Decades before Occupy Wall Street challenged the American financial system, activists began organizing alternatives to provide capital to “unbankable” communities and the poor. With roots in the civil rights, anti-poverty, and other progressive...
