This book explores the various traps that keep people mired in poverty, trapslike 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. ÍNDICE: 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 -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60615-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 28/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés