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This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology?s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity.

Applied anthropology --- Social change --- Development studies --- Africa --- Social conditions.

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Social Sciences and Humanities. Development Studies --- International Development Cooperation.

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"The early years of the twenty-first century have seen an upsurge of anti-capitalist campaigning, challenging the very basis of the New World Economic Order. Dramatic protests in Seattle or Genoa captured media headlines. But the headlines leave key questions unanswered, about the ultimate significance of the challenges posed by global social movements and the development of civil society, both South and North. Global Citizens sets out to explore the lessons from these experiences of social mobilization."--Jacket.

Social movements. --- Globalization --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Social aspects. --- Development studies

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This text presents a study of elite attitudes to poverty in developing countries and uses five cases, intended to be broadly represetntative of the diversity of situations.

Poverty --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Development studies --- Poverty & unemployment --- Social classes --- Sociology --- Attitudes

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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 encourage viewers to "adopt" a poor child really seem to care, but will sending money to these organizations do the most good? Smith explains how to make an informed decision. Grass-roots programs and organizations are helping people gain the capabilities they need to escape from poverty and this book highlights many of the most promising of these strategies in some of the poorest countries in the world, explaining what they do and what makes them effective.

Social policy --- Development aid. Development cooperation --- Third World: economic development problems --- Basic needs. --- Economic assistance, Domestic. --- Poor --- Social planning. --- Social policy. --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Development Studies --- Services for. --- Development Economics --- Development Economics. --- Developing countries: economic development problems