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Poverty Knowledge
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Author : Alice O'Connor
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-10
Poverty Knowledge written by Alice O'Connor and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-10 with History categories.
Progressive-era "poverty warriors" cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement. In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. Poverty Knowledge gives the first comprehensive historical account of the thinking behind these very different views of "the poverty problem," in a century-spanning inquiry into the politics, institutions, ideologies, and social science that shaped poverty research and policy. 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 demographic and behavioral characteristics of the poor. Along the way, she uncovers the origins of several controversial concepts, including the "culture of poverty" and the "underclass." She shows how such notions emerged not only from trends within the social sciences, but from the central preoccupations of twentieth-century American liberalism: economic growth, the Cold War against communism, the changing fortunes of the welfare state, and the enduring racial divide. The book details important changes in the politics and organization as well as the substance of poverty knowledge. Tracing the genesis of a still-thriving poverty research industry from its roots in the War on Poverty, it demonstrates how research agendas were subsequently influenced by an emerging obsession with welfare reform. Over the course of the twentieth century, O'Connor shows, the study of poverty became more about altering individual behavior and less about addressing structural inequality. The consequences of this steady narrowing of focus came to the fore in the 1990s, when the nation's leading poverty experts helped to end "welfare as we know it." O'Connor shows just how far they had traveled from their field's original aims.
Poverty Knowledge And Policy Processes
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Author : Karen Brock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Poverty Knowledge And Policy Processes written by Karen Brock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Economic assistance categories.
Analyses the role of the actors involved in policy processes at national level and the availablity of poverty knowledge. Distinguishes between traditional experts, like donor and creditor agencies, and new experts, such as civil society organizations, concluding that the latter should reclaim from government and its donor partners the territory of participation.
Poverty Knowledge In South Africa
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Author : Grace Davie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-05
Poverty Knowledge In South Africa written by Grace Davie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-05 with History categories.
This book discusses unconventional ways of measuring and addressing poverty in South Africa, which remains one of the country's biggest challenges.
The Merging Of Knowledge
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Author : International Movement ATD Fourth World. University Research Group
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2007
The Merging Of Knowledge written by International Movement ATD Fourth World. University Research Group and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Philosophy categories.
This book relates the success of a seemingly impossible challenge: to have a group of academics and people living in persistent poverty conduct research together. What conditions can the knowledge drawn from poverty cross with academic rigor? What type of knowledge does this collaboration result in? This is what The Merging of Knowledge presents in terms of the processes of The Fourth World-University program and the result of its five groups of work: history, family, knowledge, work and human activity, and citizenship. The results featured in this book can be appreciated on many levels. At the level of content, this unique collaboration offers knowledge from the very poor regarding their lives that is neglected or misunderstood in fields as varied as history, family sociology, work sociology, and political science. This "voice of the voiceless" is brought to the book by collaborative writing and is presented with the academics' methodological and epistemological contribution. At the level of gathering and understanding the information collected, the very poor are often given the role as "witnesses" of poverty in interviews. Here, as researchers, they contribute to rigorously examined content that illuminates their situations.
Wealth Poverty And Politics
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Author : Thomas Sowell
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2016-09-06
Wealth Poverty And Politics written by Thomas Sowell and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Business & Economics categories.
In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth production factors such as geography, demography, and culture. Sowell contends that liberals have a particular interest in misreading the data and chastises them for using income inequality as an argument for the welfare state. Refuting Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and others on the left, Sowell draws on accurate empirical data to show that the inequality is not nearly as extreme or sensational as we have been led to believe. Transcending partisanship through a careful examination of data, Wealth, Poverty, and Politics reveals the truth about the most explosive political issue of our time.
Poverty Knowledge And Policy Processes In Uganda
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Author : Karen Brock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Poverty Knowledge And Policy Processes In Uganda written by Karen Brock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
Poverty Knowledge In South Africa
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Author : Dorothy Grace Davie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Poverty Knowledge In South Africa written by Dorothy Grace Davie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
Poverty Knowledge In South Africa
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Author : Grace Davie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Poverty Knowledge In South Africa written by Grace Davie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Income maintenance programs categories.
Poverty is South Africa's greatest challenge. But what is 'poverty'? And how can it be measured and addressed? In South Africa, human-science knowledge about the cost of living grew out of colonialism, industrialization, apartheid, and civil resistance campaigns, which makes this knowledge far from neutral or apolitical. South Africans have used the Poverty Datum Line (PDL) and other poverty indicators to petition the state, to chip away at the pillars of white supremacy and, more recently, to criticize the post-apartheid government's failures to deliver on its promises. Rather than advocating.
The Paradox Of Africa S Poverty
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Author : Tirfe Mammo
language : en
Publisher: The Red Sea Press
Release Date : 1999
The Paradox Of Africa S Poverty written by Tirfe Mammo and has been published by The Red Sea Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Indigenous peoples categories.
Taking Ethiopia as a case study, this work examines the prevailing views on the poverty of much of Africa and argues that the current situation can be reversed by attacking the root causes of poverty - once they are properly understood.
Poverty Capital
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Author : Ananya Roy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-04-23
Poverty Capital written by Ananya Roy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-23 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the 2011 Paul Davidoff award! This is a book about poverty but it does not study the poor and the powerless; instead it studies those who manage poverty. It sheds light on how powerful institutions control "capital," or circuits of profit and investment, as well as "truth," or authoritative knowledge about poverty. Such dominant practices are challenged by alternative paradigms of development, and the book details these as well. Using the case of microfinance, the book participates in a set of fierce debates about development – from the role of markets to the secrets of successful pro-poor institutions. Based on many years of research in Washington D.C., Bangladesh, and the Middle East, Poverty Capital also grows out of the author's undergraduate teaching to thousands of students on the subject of global poverty and inequality.