Suchergebnisse

The rights and well-being of children in Latin America -- Children's rights are human rights: the consolidation of a global childhood regime -- The youngest citizens: children's rights in Argentina -- The youngest citizens: children's rights in Uruguay -- The youngest laborers: child labor and child poverty in Latin America -- The youngest laborers: child sexual exploitation and child soldiering in Latin America -- The youngest migrants: children and teens seeking entry into the United States -- Conclusion.

Introduction -- 1. Women, gender and social policy in early work -- 2. Contemporary approaches to gender and social policy: Bringing scholarship up to date -- Intermezzo 1 -- 3. Income, wealth and poverty -- 4. Access to employment -- 5. Inequalities of time use and life satisfaction intermezzo 2 -- 6. The eu, equality and social policy -- 7. Gender and social policy more broadly -- 8. Scoping a future research agenda -- References -- Index.

Introduction : uncovering Black and Latina/o relations -- Placemaking in our community : race enterprise and the war on poverty -- "Let's get them off to a headstart!" : community investment in Head Start -- "The wave of the future" : the emergence of community health clinics -- Becoming bonafide residents : developing relational community formation -- Teaching together : interracial community organizing -- Celebrating diversity : selective inclusion in a multiracial city -- Banking in South Central : the limitations of race enterprises

New Developments in Islamic Economics: Examples from Southeast Asia investigates the latest developments in a vibrantand fast-moving area of practical financial and economic study. Primarilyfocused on Malaysian contexts, while also presenting perspectives fromIndonesia and Thailand, this book examines the Asian nations leading the worldin the application of Islamic finance.Case studies analyse anddiscuss new and emerging issues in Islamic economics, including microtakaful,waqf, social finance and poverty alleviation from an Islamic perspective.

Timelines : the war in Lebanon and the war in Iraq -- Preface -- Prologue : Fatima and Sadiq : from Iraq to Michigan -- Introduction : when Arabs fled : a legacy of conflict -- Why they fled : war and the health costs of conflict -- Where they resettled : poverty on the margins of Detroit -- How they struggle : health disparities and unequal treatment -- What they feel : reproductive exile between moral worlds -- Conclusion : Arab lives matter : why America must care

Causarum Cognitio -- Naked in the marketplace -- The courage and scourge of truth -- Excursus : Sloterdijk on a motorbike! (or, Zen and the art of neo-Kynicism) -- The resistible rise of Rawlsian reasonableness -- Thomas Pogge : ethics and the ire of the beholden -- Nancy Fraser's Subaltern Weltburger blues -- Excursus : the poverty of Agonism -- Jurgen Habermas' postmetaphysical paralysis? -- Defacing the political currency : cynicism as a normative perspective for critical theory.

Emerging Asia drives rebound in international trade flowsTrade in services; International transport and the environment; Commodity prices; Global financial flows; Revival in capital flows to emerging economies; Trends in net resource transfers and international reserves; Trends in public resources; Inclusiveness of economic growth; Labour market challenges; The challenge of eradicating poverty; Appendix; Global assumptions; Baseline forecast assumptions; Commodity prices; Monetary policy; Fiscal policy; Exchange rates; Chapter II: Uncertainties, risks and policy challenges

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Fascism and Prosperity in Advanced Industrial States -- 2. West German Prosperity and British Poverty -- 3. At Home in a Foreign Land: Ford in Britain -- 4. The Wing and a Prayer: Ford on the German Periphery -- 5. The Core of German Industry: Volkswagen and the State -- 6. In the Absence of a Core: The Austin Motor Company -- 7. Fascism's Critical Divide -- 8. The Consequences of Fascism -- Index

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 A Personal Journey -- chapter 3 Faces of Poverty: The Villages Profiled -- chapter 4 Reinventing Tradition: Agrarian Movements in History -- chapter 5 Land as a Productive Resource -- chapter 6 Locating Identities -- chapter 7 Women's Claims to Land -- chapter 8 Custom and the Courts: Bargaining with Modernity -- chapter 9 Development Interventions: Does One Size Fit All? -- chapter 10 Reframing the Debate: Challenges and Dilemmas.

1. Introduction: Foreign Aid and Poverty in Africa -- 2. The Postcolonial African State Revisited -- 3. Africa in the Global Community -- 4. The Structure of Foreign Aid to Africa since the 1960s -- 5. Foreign Aid: How far and how well? -- 6. Targeting the Fundamentals: Towards a new form of development assistance to Africa -- 7. Development Assistance Redesigned -- 8. The State and Economic Development -- 9. Explaining Africa's Underdevelopment -- 10. Conclusion

In 21st century Britain, what does it mean to be working class? This book asks 24 working class writers to examine the issue as it relates to them. Examining representation, literature, sexuality, gender, art, employment, poverty, childhood, culture and politics, this book is a broad and first hand account of what it means to be drawn from the bottom of Britain's archaic, but persistent, class structure. --

India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), passed in 2005, has been among the developing world's most ambitious anti-poverty initiatives. By 'guaranteeing' 100 days of work annually to every rural household, NREGA sought to advance the Indian constitution's commitment to securing citizens' 'right to work'. This volume is not a technical evaluation of program performance. It offers instead a detailed analysis of the politics surrounding NREGA.

"Cover" -- "Contents" -- "1. A People's Country" -- "2. Broke and Patriotic" -- "3. Heading to Alabama and Montana" -- "4. The Last Hope" -- "5. The Land of Milk and Honey" -- "6. Freedom" -- "7. Reconciling Poverty and Patriotism" -- "8. An Unshakable Bond" -- "Appendix" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Index" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V" -- "W" -- "Y

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 'Strangers in the blood': custody, inheritance, and taxation -- Legitimacy declaration suits -- Estates and wills -- Estates of illegitimates -- Custody and guardianship -- Including illegitimate children: the twentieth century -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 'The workhouse or death': maternal crimes and illegitimacy -- Background and statistics -- Secrecy and shame -- Provision and poverty -- Crime and punishment -- Insanity defences -- Victim or perpetrator?

3 Reason versus tradition, free will versus fate, interpretation versus literalism: intellectual underpinnings of the negative outlook for the Muslim worldIntroduction; Miserable outlook of the Muslim world: poverty within abundance?; Political and intellectual reasons behind the poor performance of Muslim countries; Main schools of thought in the Muslim world; Reason versus tradition, Ra'y versus Hadith, free will versus fate, interpretation versus literalism; Intellectual conflicts with political roots and implications