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"Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as they negotiate an over-extended health system unequipped to respond to the disease."--

Cancer --- Poor --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Cancers --- Carcinoma --- Malignancy (Cancer) --- Malignant tumors --- Tumors --- Treatment --- Diagnosis --- Social aspects --- Psychological aspects. --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions

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Poverty remains one of the greatest problems of our time, causing starvation and humiliation in poor countries and contributing to problems of conflict, migration and environmental degradation effecting also richer countries. This study provides a systematical analysis of today’s donor strategies for development cooperation, which unite around the goal of poverty reduction. The most recent strategies of the World Bank and the German, British and Swedish official development agencies are compared and evaluated. Their broad consensus on goals and conceptual elements is comprehensively presented. Differences in accentuations regarding beneficiaries and implementation methods are highlighted. An empirical study of the poverty focus in project evaluations of the German Financial Cooperation rounds off the analysis by exemplarily pointing at the practical implications of the new strategies.

Politics & government --- International economics --- Development economics & emerging economies --- Welfare economics --- Poverty. --- Poor. --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Economic conditions --- applied --- armut --- bekämpfung --- bericht --- comparative --- empirical --- Kircher --- Reduction --- research --- Strategies --- study

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This volume argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is unlikely to succeed because its mainstream approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. The inadequacy of that assumption, Sam Wong argues, calls for a reassessment of human motivations, institutional dynamics, and the complexity of structures in social capital building. Proposing a 'pro-poor' perspective, in which poverty-specific outcomes are highlighted, he suggests an exploration of 'unseen' social capital is in order-not only to challenge the mainstream understanding of 'seen' social capital, but to demonstrate the need for everyday cooperation, which is shaped by social norms, influenced by conscious and unconscious motivations, and subject to changes in priority based on livelihood. A useful volume for both policy makers and practitioners, Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation offers a fresh perspective in thinking about civic and social agency.

International economic relations --- Community organization --- Hong Kong --- Migrant labor. --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Poor --- Migrant labor --- Citizen participation. --- Social conditions. --- China --- Social conditions --- Economic policy --- Labor, Migrant --- Migrant workers --- Migrants (Migrant labor) --- Migratory workers --- Transient labor --- Employees --- Casual labor --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Economic conditions --- popular science --- wetenschap algemeen

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Study on the phenomenon of the poor and poverty in Santiago city in the 19th century, and the reaction of the political and economic elite. What to do with the poor? is the provocative title of this book that is published for the first time in Chile. This was also the question posed by the Santiago elite (and Chilean in general) during much of the nineteenth century, a question that still retains all its relevance. The suggestive explanation of Luis Alberto Romero for the complex path of mentalities, images and representations of the other, opens new perspectives for the social history of Chile ...

Social classes --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Poor --- History --- Attitudes --- Social conditions. --- Santiago (Chile) --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Poverty --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social groups --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Economic conditions --- Santiago de Chile --- Santiago de Chile (Chile) --- Municipalidad de Santiago (Chile) --- Santiago del Nuevo Extremo (Chile) --- subaltern class --- 19th century --- social history --- elites

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The West has become obsessed with Muslims, constantly classifying them as either 'moderate' or 'extreme'. Reacting against this dehumanising tendency, Jeremy Seabrook and Imran Ahmed Siddiqui show us the daily life of poor Muslims in India and sheds light on what lies behind India's 'economic miracle'. The authors examine life in Muslim communities in Kolkata, home to some of the most disadvantaged people in India, giving a voice to their views, values and feelings. We see that Muslims are no different from those of other faiths - work, family and survival are the overwhelming preoccupations of the vast majority. Although most are observant in their religion, there is no trace of the malevolence or poverty-fuelled extremism attributed to them. This enlightening and elegantly written book will be of great interest to students and practitioners of development and anyone who wants a more realistic picture of Muslim life and modern India.

Muslims --- Poor --- Poverty --- Inner cities --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- South Asia --- Central cities --- Ghettos, Inner city --- Inner city ghettos --- Inner city problems --- Zones of transitions --- Cities and towns --- Urban cores --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Islam --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Urban poor --- Calcutta (India) --- Ghetto. --- Muslim. --- Religiöse Minderheit. --- Indien. --- Social life and customs.