On the Side of the Poor
Author : Gustavo Gutierrez, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608335445
Author : Gustavo Gutierrez, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608335445
Author : Muhammad Yunus
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2007-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1586485466
The inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world. Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members of his community were systematically neglected by the banking system -- no one would loan them any money. Yunus conceived of a new form of banking -- microcredit -- that would offer very small loans to the poorest people without collateral, and teach them how to manage and use their loans to create successful small businesses. He founded Grameen Bank based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, and it now provides $24 billion of micro-loans to more than nine million families. Ninety-seven percent of its clients are women, and repayment rates are over 90 percent. Outside of Bangladesh, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen have blossomed, and serve hundreds of millions of people around the world. The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is the moving story of someone who dreamed of changing the world -- and did.
Author : Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674044647
In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.
Author : Éric Vuillard
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1635420091
International Booker Prize Finalist The Spectator (UK): Best Book of the Year From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants’ War (1524–25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were still being promised equality in heaven, began to question why they shouldn’t have equality here and now on earth. There ensued a furious struggle between the powerful—the comfortable Protestants—and the others, the wretched. They were led by a number of theologians, one of whom has left his mark on history through his determination and sheer energy. His name was Thomas Müntzer, and he set Germany on fire. The War of the Poor recounts his story—that of an insurrection through the Word. In his characteristically bold, cinematic style, Éric Vuillard draws insights from this revolt from nearly five hundred years ago, which remains shockingly relevant to the dire inequalities we face today.
Author : Leonardo Boff
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Environmental ethics
ISBN : 1608330974
Focusing on the threated Amazon of his native Brazil, Boff traces the economic and metaphysical ties that bind the fate of the rain forests with the fate of the indigenous peopls and the poor of the land. He shows how liberation theology must join with ecology in reclaiming the dignity of the earth and our sense of a common community, part of God's creation. To illustrate the possibilities, Boff turns to resrouces in Christian spirituality both ancient and modern, from the vision of St. Francis of Assisi to cosmic christology.
Author : Daniel G. Groody
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 2022-09-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780268207083
The Preferential Option for the Poor beyond Theology draws on an interdisciplinary group of contributors to explore how to practice a commitment to the preferential option for the poor.
Author : Kenan Heise
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Poor
ISBN : 9781936863334
"Collecting dozens of interviews conducted over 50 years to give voice to the 16 percent that live below the poverty line, journalist Kenan Heise ... addresses unemployment, prison, nutrition needs and hunger, the lives of impoverished children, panhandling, health-care struggles, the role of race in poverty, and Dumpster diving"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Steve Corbett
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802487629
With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation. Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good. But it looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy—and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself. Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts provides proven strategies for effective poverty alleviation, catalyzing the idea that sustainable change comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out.
Author : Anthony Abraham Jack
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674239660
An NPR Favorite Book of the Year “Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import.” —Washington Post “An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our understanding of the lives of contemporary college students.” —Paul Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed “Eye-opening...Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on elite institutions.” —Washington Post “Jack’s investigation redirects attention from the matter of access to the matter of inclusion...His book challenges universities to support the diversity they indulge in advertising.” —New Yorker The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In this bracing exposé, Anthony Jack shows that many students’ struggles continue long after they’ve settled in their dorms. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This powerfully argued book documents how university policies and campus culture can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why some students are harder hit than others.
Author : Michael Harrington
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 1997-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 068482678X
Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.