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This work describes the fall of individuals and countries who used to be affluent and dreamed their affluence would go on for ever. It turns the experience of this poverty into sociological theory and social statistics to provoke reflection about families today and the risks of being poor.

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This work describes the fall of individuals and countries who used to be affluent and dreamed their affluence would go on for ever. It turns the experience of this poverty into sociological theory and social statistics to provoke reflection about families today and the risks of being poor.

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No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear aboutthose who have formerly been on the streetssharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness.

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Fifty years after Oscar Lewis's famous depiction of five Mexican families caught in a ""culture of poverty,"" Caroline Moser tells a very different story of five neighborhood women and their families strategically accumulating assets to escape poverty in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil.

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Despite the recent success of welfare reform in moving people off public assistance and into jobs, most of America's working poor are still unable to accumulate even the most minimal of assets.

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This survey of the current state of progress in legal aid systems in fifteen areas of the world cites the constitutional and philosophical goals of each nation regarding the poor and legal aid and it explores the ways in which the actual situation differs from the ideal.

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This book examines how begging regulation plays a central role in organising how we feel responsible for one another in late capitalist society.

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A national survey of social movement organizations is employed to develop a model of how the organizational features of the local group, competition among social movement organizations, the political settings of the organization, and organizational empowerment influence collective action style.

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An incisive critique of how the field of international poverty studies, cultivated by global development agendas, has served to legitimate an increasingly punitive and conservative neoliberal world order.

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An incisive critique of how the field of international poverty studies, cultivated by global development agendas, has served to legitimate an increasingly punitive and conservative neoliberal world order.

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Features A-Z entries and primary document excerpts that explore the turbulent history of poverty in America.

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In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. This work gives an 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.

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Poverty Reduction in a Changing Climate, edited by Hari Bansha Dulal, is a work which discusses the new innovations and funding mechanisms which have emerged in response to the rise of climate-related challenges in the twenty-first century. Dulal and the text's contributors explore the synergies and implications of those innovations with respect to poverty alleviation goals.

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This volume offers an examination of the nature of poverty and its relationship to gender and ethnicity in five post-communist societies. The contributors contend that a "new poverty" is in the making and that the growing underclass is strongly related to ethnicity.

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In 1997, Mexico launched a new incentive-based poverty reduction program to enhance the human capital of those living in extreme poverty. This book presents a case study of Progresa-Oportunidades, focusing on the main factors that have contributed to the program's sustainability, policies that have allowed it to operate at the national level, and future challenges.

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A daunting challenge to the international community is how to go about lifting the world's huge poor population out of poverty. ""Asset-based"" approaches to development are aimed specifically at designing and implementing public policies that will increase the capital assets of the poor i.

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The clear, authoritative chapters describe the declining opportunities available in rural areas--including the social, educational, and political factors that so often pose barriers to economic advancement.

Part One provides a comprehensive description of the poor population and an analysis of rural poverty's underlying dynamics.

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This volume, based on the authors' close and extensive collaboration with New York's Lower East Family Union, affords a substantive, insightful, and effective approach not only to defining the services needed but also to the delivery thereof.

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The poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks. They have little or no access to public social insurance, are unlikely to save in adequate amounts to rely fully on self-insurance or informal insurance, face restricted access to private market insurance or credit mechanisms, and have little or no political voice to demand the protection of safety net programs.