ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY A GUIDE TO WHAT WORKS STEPHEN C. SMITH PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 2005 PART VI Chapter 3: Health, Nutrition, and Population (Cont.) POPULATION AND FAMILY PLANNING: CARE MAKES PROGRESS IN ETHIOPIA There are more than ten times as many people living on the Earth as there were 300 years ago. But one …
ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY A GUIDE TO WHAT WORKS STEPHEN C. SMITH PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 2005 PART V PART II ESCAPING THE POVERTY TRAP: HOW THE POOR ARE GAINING THE KEYS TO CAPABILITY Even in the poorest regions of the world, far from the major growth engines of the global economy, and in the face …
ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY A GUIDE TO WHAT WORKS STEPHEN C. SMITH PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 2005 PART IV Chapter 2: The Keys to Capability: Eight Keys to Escaping Poverty Traps (Cont.) The Fifth Key: Access to the benefits of new technologies for higher productivity Basic literacy and numeracy are of intrinsic value. But to be most …
ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY A GUIDE TO WHAT WORKS STEPHEN C. SMITH PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 2005 PART III Chapter 2: The Keys to Capability: Eight Keys to Escaping Poverty Traps The escape from poverty requires the keys to unlock poverty traps. In providing various kinds of freedom, the keys to capability are intrinsically valuable. They also …
ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY A GUIDE TO WHAT WORKS STEPHEN C. SMITH PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 2005 PART II PART I EXTREME POVERTY: THE CRUELEST TRAP Chapter 1: Understanding Extreme Poverty: Poverty Traps and the Experience of the Poor To understand how poverty can be ended, first we need a clear understanding of what poverty is, and …
ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY A GUIDE TO WHAT WORKS STEPHEN C. SMITH PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 2005 PART I Front cover Over 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger, and over 10 million children die each year from preventable causes. These may seem like overwhelming statistics, but as Stephen Smith shows in this call to arms, global poverty …
FOOD FIRST BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY FRANCES MOORE LAPPE & JOSEPH COLLINS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON 1977 PART 1I PART II: THE SCARCITY SCARE Chapter 1: Standing Room Only? Too Many People? Question: We now have less than one acre of cultivated land per person in the world and that will be cut …
THE NATURE OF MASS POVERTY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1979 PART V Chapter 4: Accommodation In the rich country a large proportion of the people have come to expect a comfortable and also an increasing income. This is a circumstance to which they have accommodated their thoughts and expectations. An effort, general …
THE NATURE OF MASS POVERTY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1979 PART IV Chapter 3: The Equilibrium of Poverty The accepted diagnosis of mass poverty – insufficient capital, backward technology – went beyond its strategic convenience. It had also the blessing of the most reputable economic thought. What was recommended for the poor …
THE NATURE OF MASS POVERTY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1979 PART III Chapter 2: The Political Origins of Error Until World War II, there was relatively little serious discussion of the causes of mass poverty, and likewise very little of its remedy. As the colonial world had no claim to self-government, so …
