Ending global poverty
a guide to what works
- ISBN: 9780230606159
- Editorial: Palgrave MacMillan
- Fecha de la edición: 2008
- Lugar de la edición: Hampshire. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 259
- Idiomas: Inglés
This is a call to arms from an expert on global poverty.Global poverty focused in regions like sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia remains an issue of concern within charitable organizations and social activists. It offers both information on the economics behind ending poverty as well as hands-on practical advice to guide individual action. Smith is an economist specializing in development and in close contact with World Bank officials.This book 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.
