From many lands / / edited by Deepa Narayan, Patti Petesch
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Titolo: |
From many lands / / edited by Deepa Narayan, Patti Petesch
|
| Pubblicazione: | Washington, DC, : A copublication of Oxford University Press and the World Bank, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xvi, 509 pages ; ; 24 cm |
| Disciplina: | 305.5/69 |
| Soggetto topico: | Poor |
| Poverty | |
| Altri autori: |
Narayan-ParkerDeepa
PeteschPatti L
|
| Note generali: | "World Bank"--Cover. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Ghana - "Empty Pockets" -- Chapter 3: Malawi - Tangled Web -- Chapter 4: Nigeria - Illbeing and Insecurity -- Chapter 5: Bangladesh - Waves of Disaster -- Chapter 6: India - Gains and Stagnation in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh -- Chapter 7: Indonesia - Coping with Vulnerability and Crisis -- Chapter 8: Bosnia and Herzegovina - War-Torn Lives -- Chapter 9: Bulgaria - Reeling from Change -- Chapter 10: Kyrgyz Republic - Crumbling Support, Deepening Poverty -- Chapter 11: The Russian Federation - Struggling against the Tide -- Chapter 12: Argentina - Life Used to Be Better -- Chapter 13: Brazil - Gains and Losses in the Favelas -- Chapter 14: Ecuador - The Perils of Poverty -- Chapter 15: Jamaica - Island in a Turbulent World -- Chapter 16: Conclusion - An Empowering Approach to Poverty Reduction -- Appendix 1 - Development Indicators for Fourteen Country Case Studies -- Appendix 2 - Country Currencies and the 1999 Exchange Rate -- Appendix 3 -Overview of Study Themes and Methods. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Voices of the Poor provides a unique and detailed picture of the life of the poor and explains the constraints poor people face to escape from poverty in a way that more traditional survey techniques do not capture well. From Many Lands, the third volume in the Voices of the Poor series, contains regional findings and 23 country cases, grouped by region. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From many lands |
| ISBN: | 1-280-08530-4 |
| 9786610085309 | |
| 0-585-45643-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910968032903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Voices of the poor.