1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000006367

Autore

Whittier, John Greenleaf <1807-1892>

Titolo

The prose works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1880

Descrizione fisica

2 v. ; 20 cm.

Disciplina

811.4

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Vol. 1. - 473 p. Vol. 2. - VIII, 395 p.

2.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000033746

Titolo

Declamationes XIX maiores Quintiliano falso adscriptae / edidit Lennart Hakanson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stutgardiae : in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1982

Titolo uniforme

Declamationes maiores / Pseudo-Quintilianus

ISBN

3-519-01755-5

Descrizione fisica

XXXI, 431 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana

Disciplina

875.01

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450360703321

Titolo

The urban poor in Latin America [[electronic resource] /] / Marianne Fay, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2005

ISBN

1-280-22118-6

9786610221189

0-8213-6070-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Directions in development

Altri autori (Persone)

FayMarianne

Disciplina

362.5/098/091732

Soggetti

Urban poor - Latin America

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Overview; 1 Urban Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: Setting the Stage; Tables; Boxes; Figures; 2 Working One's Way Up: The Urban Poor and the Labor Market; 3 Keeping a Roof over One's Head: Improving Access to Safe and Decent Shelter; 4 Violence, Fear, and Insecurity among the Urban Poor in Latin America; 5 Keeping Healthy in an Urban Environment: Public Health Challenges for the Urban Poor; 6 Relying on Oneself: Assets of the Poor; 7 Calling on Friends and Relatives: Social Capital; 8 Public Social Safety Nets and the Urban Poor

Sommario/riassunto

The urbanization of Latin America has also lead to the urbanization of its poor. Today about half of the region's poor live in cities. Yet the phenomenon of urban poverty is not one that is well studied or well understood and policy makers across Latin America are increasingly interested in policy advice on how to design programs and policies to tackle poverty. Urban Poor in Latin America argues that the causes of poverty, the nature of deprivation, and the policy levers to fight poverty are to a large extent site-specific. As such, the book looks at strategies to assist the urban poor in making