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Decentralization for Satisfying Basic Needs : An Economic Guide for Policy Makers (PB)
J. Michael McGuire
Paperback - $99.95
"Decentralization as a Means of Satisfying Basic Needs: An Economic Guide for Policymakers" by J. Michael McGuire The challenge addressed in this book is designing the degree of decentralization that is most effective in satisfying the basic needs of ...
Decentralization for Satisfying Basic Needs : An Economic Guide for Policymakers (Hc)
J. Michael McGuire
Hardcover - $177.95
"Decentralization as a Means of Satisfying Basic Needs: An Economic Guide for Policymakers" by J. Michael McGuire The challenge addressed in this book is designing the degree of decentralization that is most effective in satisfying the basic needs of ...
Kidwatching in Josie's World : A Study of Children in Homelessness
Neva Ann Medcalf
Paperback - $54.95
Owning Up : Poverty, Assets, and the American Dream
Michelle Miller-Adams
Paperback - $39.95
Despite the recent success of welfare reform in moving people off public assistance and into jobs, most of America's working poor are still unable to accumulate even the most minimal of assets. Even when they are getting by, they lack many of the res ...
Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty : Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada
Kiran Mirchandani
Paperback - $32.95
Arguing that people of color are most often the casualties in the governments' desire to roll back the welfare state, this analysis delves into the current myths and stereotypes about racial difference. In exploring such myths in conjunction with the ...
Empowering Squatter Citizen : Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction
Diana Mitlin
Paperback - $97.95
This volume is the most recent addition to the examination of urban poverty by the Human Settlements Program at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). It makes the case for redirecting support to local organizations and p ...
Putting Faith in Partnerships : Welfare-To-Work in Four Cities
Stephen V. Monsma
Hardcover - $57.95
Putting Faith in Partnership addresses a major conceptual change in American domestic policy, begun by Reagan and now fully realized by the Bush administration: the shift of responsibility for social services from the federal government to states and ...
Poverty & the Public Utility : Building Shareholder Value Through Low-Income Initiatives
Kevin Monte de Ramos
Hardcover - $148.95
For the low-income U.S. population, the continuing escalation of utility expense exacerbates financial distress and challenges the quality of utility revenues. But research has shown that the poor, in spite of having energy burdens four times that of ...