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Ending global poverty, a guide to what works, Stephen C. Smith

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-250) and indexes

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Ending global poverty

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Stephen C. Smith

a guide to what works

This book offers both information on the economics behind ending poverty as well as hands-on practical advice to guide individual action. It explores the various traps that keep people mired in poverty and gives readers the tools they need to help people overcome poverty and determine what approaches are most effective in fighting it

pt. 1. Extreme poverty, the cruelest trap. -- Understanding extreme poverty : poverty traps and the experience of the poor -- The keys to capability : eight keys to escaping poverty traps -- pt. 2. Escaping the poverty trap : how the poor are gaining 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 -- Ten strategies for innovation in ending global poverty -- pt. 3. What you can do to help. -- First steps -- Further questions -- Stepping up -- What businesses can do -- Some closing words : the end of global poverty