Ending Global Poverty A Guide to What Works

Name: Ending Global Poverty A Guide to What Works
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ISBN: 9780230606159

ISBN-10: 0230606156

ISBN-13: 9780230606159

Edition: 2008

Authors: Stephen C. Smith

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Over 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger, and over ten 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 is something that we can and should solve within our lifetimes. Ending Global Poverty explores the various traps that keep people mired in poverty, traps like poor nutrition, illiteracy, lack of access to health care, and others and presents eight keys to escaping these traps. Smith gives readers the tools they need to help people overcome poverty and to determine what approaches are most effective in fighting it. For example, celebrities in commercials who…

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 9/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Extreme Poverty: The Cruelest Trap


Poverty Traps and the Experience of the Poor


The Keys to Capability: Eight Keys to Escaping Poverty Traps


Escaping the Cruel Trap of Poverty: How the Poor Can Gain the Keys to Capability


Health, Nutrition, and Population


Basic Education


Credit for Poverty Reduction, and Insuring Opportunity


Bottom Up Market Development: Assets and Access for the Poor


Entitlement to New Technologies and the Capability to Benefit from them


Sustaining the Environment for Ending Poverty


Social Inclusion and Human Rights for the Poor and Voiceless


Community Empowerment and Development


Innovations in Poverty Strategy


What You Can Do to Help


First Steps


Further Questions


Stepping Up


What Businesses Can Do


Some Closing Words: An End to Global Poverty