Author : Sam Daley-Harris
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1565494385
"Published in association with The National Teaching and Learning Forum."
Author : Sam Daley-Harris
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
* Follow up to the case studies presented in 2002’s Pathways out of Poverty * Companion book to the 2006 Global Microcredit Summit More Pathways Out of Poverty explores new practices in microfinance, some of them revolutionary, and draws on the success of the industry to illustrate the challenges involved in lifting clients out of poverty. Taken together, the contributions from leading microfinance leaders and institutions serve as a map for ensuring that microcredit contributes powerfully to cutting absolute poverty in half by 2015. For more information about the Global Microcredit Summit, visit: www.microcreditsummit.org
Author : Sam Daley-Harris
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Microfinance is a key intervention in helping families in developing countries move out of poverty. The Microedit Summit Campaign works to promote microfinance, with the aim of reaching 100 million families by 2005. This book challenges conventional wisdoms and explores the Campaign's core themes.
Author : Brigit Helms
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821363611
"Beginning with key questions about clients of microfinance - Who are they? What financial services do they want? What is the impact of financial services on their lives? - the book examines all levels of the financial system. It shows what works, what does not work, and where more learning is needed. By focusing on promising models and practices, it offers a vision of how to achieve financial systems that will ultimately offer access for all."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309483980
The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.
Author :
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN : 0320111814
Author : Jonathan Mitchell
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1844078884
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : David Brady
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 937 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199914052
The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international, inter-disciplinary group of scholars to provide their perspectives on the issue. Contributors engage in discussions about the leading theories and conceptual debates regarding poverty, the most salient topics in poverty research, and the far-reaching consequences of poverty on the individual and societal level.
Author : Thomas S. Weisner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2005-02-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226886646
Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life. Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence in skills that matter for a child's subsequent success as a person as well as a student, parent, worker, or citizen. To understand successful pathways requires a mix of qualitative, quantitative, and ethnographic methods—the state of the art for research practice among developmentalists, educators, and policymakers alike. This volume includes new studies of minority and immigrant families, school achievement, culture, race and gender, poverty, identity, and experiments and interventions meant to improve family and child contexts. Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development will be of enormous value to everyone interested in the issues of human development, education, and social welfare, and among professionals charged with the task of improving the lives of children in our communities.
Author : Deepa Narayan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 082136992X
This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering a vast body of conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic and social mobility, it takes the reader on compelling journeys of multigenerational accounts of three villages in Kanartaka, India, twelve years in the life of a street child in Burkina Faso, and much more. Leading development practitioners and scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new frameworks and evidence from their own works. The 'Moving Out of Poverty' series launched in 2007 is under the editorial direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World Bank and former director of the pathbreaking 'Voices of the Poor' series. It features the results of new comparative research across more than 500 communities in 15 countries to understand how and why people move out of poverty, and presents other work which builds on interdisciplinary and contextually grounded understandings of growth and poverty reduction.
