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Series
Very short introductions volume 557
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader understanding of development. In this 'Very Short Introduction'...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top political, environmental, and social problems that contribute to poverty. [The author] sets the stage by drawing a ... conceptual map of the world economy and the...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As the old axiom goes: "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." But teach a woman to fish, and everyone eats for a lifetime. In this firsthand account, Ritu Sharma shares how women can, and are, overcoming the forces that keep them in poverty. She chronicles her travels through four countries-Sri Lanka, Burkina Faso, Honduras, and Nicaragua-and the intimate interactions she had with the women living...
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