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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.

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In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverté, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II battle against poverty in the United States. John Angell's translation of Huret's work brings to light for an English-speaking audience this critical set of intellectuals working in federal government, academic institutions, and think tanks. Their efforts to create a policy bureaucracy to support federal socio-economic action spanned from the last days of the New Deal to the late 1960s when President Richard M. Nixon implemented the Family Assistance Plan. Often toiling in obscurity, this cadre of experts waged their own war not only on poverty but on the American political establishment. Their policy recommendations, as Huret clearly shows, often militated against the unscientific prejudices and electoral calculations that ruled Washington D.C. politics.The Experts' War on Poverty highlights the metrics, research, and economic and social facts these social scientists employed in their work, and thereby reveals the unstable institutional foundation of successive executive efforts to grapple with gross social and economic disparities in the United States. Huret argues that this internal war, coming at a time of great disruption due to the Cold War, undermined and fractured the institutional system officially directed at ending poverty. The official War on Poverty, which arguably reached its peak under President Lyndon B. Johnson, was thus fomented and maintained by a group of experts determined to fight poverty in radical ways that outstripped both the operational capacity of the federal government and the political will of a succession of presidents.

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This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims. Roy explains the variations by directing attention to the dynamic interaction between the opportunity structures available to the poor and the social relations of power in which they are embedded. He analyses these intersections as 'political spaces' which both enable and constrain popular practices. Through examination of the 'political spaces' available to the poor in four different localities, Roy outlines a new analytic framework to understanding poor people's politics. Based on these observations, the book makes a strong case for an approach to democracy that appreciates people's ambivalences towards democracy. Roy urges researchers of democracy to step beyond either enthusiastic narratives - the inevitability of democracy or apocalyptic accounts of democracy's impending death.

Poor --- Democracy --- Marginality, Social --- Political participation --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Political activity --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Economic conditions

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En 1841, dans son discours de réception à l'Académie française, Victor Hugo avait évoqué la "populace" pour désigner le peuple des quartiers pauvres de Paris. Vinçard ayant vigoureusement protesté dans un article de La Ruche populaire, Hugo fut très embarrassé. Il prit conscience à ce moment-là qu'il avait des lecteurs dans les milieux populaires et que ceux-ci se sentaient humiliés par son vocabulaire dévalorisant. Progressivement le mot "misérable", qu'il utilisait au début de ses romans pour décrire les criminels, changea de sens et désigna le petit peuple des malheureux. Le même glissement de sens se retrouve dans Les Mystères de Paris d'Eugène Sue. Grâce au courrier volumineux que lui adressèrent ses lecteurs des classes populaires, Eugène Sue découvrit les réalités du monde social qu'il évoquait dans son roman. L'ancien légitimiste se transforma ainsi en porte-parole des milieux populaires. Le petit peuple de Paris cessa alors d'être décrit comme une race pour devenir une classe sociale. » La France, c'est ici l'ensemble des territoires (colonies comprises) qui ont été placés, à un moment ou un autre, sous la coupe de l'État français. Dans cette somme, l'auteur a voulu éclairer la place et le rôle du peuple dans tous les grands événements et les grandes luttes qui ont scandé son histoire depuis la fin du Moyen Âge : les guerres, l'affirmation de l'État, les révoltes et les révolutions, les mutations économiques et les crises, l'esclavage et la colonisation, les migrations, les questions sociale et nationale. -- Source éditeur

France --- History --- Classes populaires --- Histoire --- Poor --- Histoire. --- Working class --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Economic conditions --- Pauvres --- Travailleurs --- Poor. --- Social conditions. --- Working class. --- Classes populaires. --- Conditions sociales. --- 14e siècle-21e siècle (début). --- Arbeiterklasse. --- Soziale Situation. --- Unterschicht. --- France. --- Frankreich. --- History. --- --France --- --Histoire --- --Pauvre --- --Condition sociale --- --History --- Social conditions --- Poor - France - History --- Working class - France - History --- Pauvre --- Condition sociale --- France - Social conditions --- France - History

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Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and social security. This book investigates the everyday practices through which citizens of the world's largest democracy make claims on the state, asking whether, how, and why they engage public officials in the pursuit of social welfare. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in rural India, Kruks-Wisner demonstrates that claim-making is possible in settings (poor and remote) and among people (the lower classes and castes) where much democratic theory would be unlikely to predict it. Examining the conditions that foster and inhibit citizen action, she finds that greater social and spatial exposure - made possible when individuals traverse boundaries of caste, neighborhood, or village - builds citizens' political knowledge, expectations, and linkages to the state, and is associated with higher levels and broader repertoires of claim-making.

Political participation --- Poor --- Citizenship --- Marginality, Social --- Public welfare --- Social service --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Political activity --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Law and legislation --- Economic conditions