Searching through the vast depository of files of the Departement van Kolonien in Leeghwaterstraat in The Hague, mainly looking for data on regional economic histort in late colonial java, it soon …
For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of…
In This book, authors reveal the underlying—and largely overlooked—causes of the problem, and provide a powerful prescription for change. The authors argue that competition currently takes plac…
This is a book about real people struggling to survive but have come upon even more hard times. Homeless, living on the streets, nowhere to go. The Embankment on the Thames is full of people who ha…
The heart of this book is a study of all the biblical laws concerned with wealth and poverty. Baker groups these laws together by topic, considering the similarities and differences between the Dec…
Hazlitt describes various attempts by governments over many years to fight poverty. The policies never worked and poverty remained in place. We remain on a treadmill, chasing solutions that can nev…
Alice O'Connor chronicles a transformation in the study of poverty, from a reform-minded inquiry into the political economy of industrial capitalism to a detached, highly technical analysis of the …