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Why Poor People Stay Poor
Author : Michael Lipton
Publisher :
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9780566055997
100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World
Author : Bob Sutcliffe
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2001-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781856498142
Book Description
This innovative book builds on the fact that there is now a large body of statistical information about today's highly unequal world. Bob Sutcliffe looks at current affairs, development, and international relations. For anyone wanting to understand the contemporary world, this book probes complex economic issues using innovative diagrams and charts.
Voting Patterns of the United States Supreme Court
Author : John D. Sprague
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
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The Management of Secondary Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author : United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9789211311600
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People and Education in the Third World
Author : W. T. S Gould
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317902068
Book Description
This text examines education and its role in Third World development. Amongst the areas covered are: the private and public demand for education; global patterns of education; the geography of educational provision; the school and the community; and education and population growth.
Regional Disparities, Growth, and Inclusiveness
Author : Mr.Holger Floerkemeier
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1513569503
Book Description
We discuss regional disparities in economic performance and living standards. We first set out some key facts, and provide a conceptual framework to help analyze whether such disparities are efficient, or instead reflect market and/or policy failures. We examine whether policy attempts to reduce regional disparities necessarily involve a trade-off between equity and efficiency. We then investigate whether policymakers should focus on boosting the economic performance of lagging regions—or, conversely, accept the presence of regional disparities, and instead assist households in lagging regions through transfer payments, investments in education, health, and other basic services, and by facilitating out-migration.
Communities in Action
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309452961
Book Description
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Urban-Rural Transformation Geography
Author : Yansui Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811648352
Book Description
This book attempts to introduce the theory of system science and engineering technology into the geographic research of urban-rural transformation, reveals the level-structure-function of urban-rural transformation, and promotes the scientific research on urban-rural transformation. Focusing on the systematic diagnosis of new-type urbanization, urban-rural land use, industrial structure transformation and public facilities allocation, this book explores the long-term mechanism, innovative model, and scientific way of urban-rural land optimal allocation and spatial reconstruction and develops urban-rural transformation geography. In terms of the contents, the book constructs the theory and method system of urban-rural transformation geography, analyzes the process, pattern, mechanism, and response of urban-rural transformation, reveals the evolution characteristics, types, and regional differences of urban-rural regional system, and finally puts forward the optimal decision-making of urban-rural transformation. This book not only provides references for graduate and researchers in geography, regional development, urban and rural planning, resource science, environmental science, human-earth system science, sustainability science, and other related fields but also guides the decision-making of planners and government officials.
A Geography of the Third World
Author : C.G Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134683065
Book Description
The label of "Third World" covers half the land surface and three quarters of the population of the planet. The problems and potential of this region and its peoples are attracting increasing concern and interest. Fully revised and updated this edition includes: * a wealth of photographic and line illustrations * boxed case studies * chapter summaries * guides to further reading Issues of increasing concern at the end of the twentieth century are fully addressed - for example, the widening gap in economic performance between countries in the Third world and the assertion of national cultures in the face of globalisation. New material on gender issues and the environmental impact of development has been included.
African Urban Quarterly
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
