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The National Front Against Poverty: The Struggle for Income Redistribution

Global Labour Journal, 2015
This article describes the campaign developed by unions, human rights organisations and other social movements in Argentina at the end of the 1990s in order to push the government to implement measures to eliminate poverty and extreme poverty.
Luis Ernesto Campos
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The role of the church in the struggle against poverty: A Hervormde Kerk in Suidelike Afrika perspective

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1996
The essence of being a church is love. The church as an organization based on love has the responsibility of loving God, his people and the world which God himself loved first. This paper is about the responsibility of a 'poor church', the Hervormde Kerk
S. P. Mpanza
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IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL GOVRENMENTS IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST URBAN POVERTY [PDF]

The Journal of Social Sciences, 2022
Yoksulluk geçmişten günümüze insanlığın karşısında duran en büyük toplumsal sorunların başında gelmektedir. Yoksulluğun toplum ve bireyler üzerindeki etkilerini azaltmada yoksullukla mücadele politikaları önemli bir yere sahiptir. Sanayi devrimi sonrasında insanlığın hızlı bir şekilde gelişmesiyle birlikte köy ve kasabaların ...
Ali Yeşildal
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The resurgence of poverty and the struggle against exclusion: A new challenge for social security in Europe?

International Social Security Review, 1997
This article overviews the important ships that have taken place during recent decades in scientific thinking with respect to poverty and social exclusion, and social security in Europe. Starting from this it points to the basic aims, achievements and shortcomings of social security policies in the fight against social exclusion.
Jos Berghman
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The (Possible) Function of the Beatitude of the Poor in the Context of the Struggle against Poverty

Acta Theologica, 2013
The article focuses on the beatitude of the poor in the social and religious context of historical Jesus. The original version of this makarism has to be seen as a religious statement which is not meant as a program of social reform. Yet it has political and socio-ethical implications as it connects the poor with God and his kingdom.
Jacek Kugler
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The Importance Of Zakat In Struggle Against Circle Of Poverty And Income Redistribution

, 2015
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Hasan Bülent Kantarcı
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Struggling against the Odds of Poverty, Access, and Gender: Secondary Schooling for Girls in Pakistan

THE LAHORE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 2013
While schooling outcomes for girls have improved over the period 2001–11, progress has been uneven within Pakistan. Rural girls lag far behind urban girls and progress across the provinces remains unequal. The transition to secondary school—in some ways more critical for improving employability, reproductive health, and other outcomes—shows even more ...
Zeba A. Sathar, Asif Wazir, Maqsood Sadiq   +2 more
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Between Public Health and Social Work: Visiting Nurses in the Struggle Against Poverty and Infant Mortality in Bulgaria 1923-1934

Social Work and Society, 2011
At the beginning of the 20th century, Bulgaria as a part of the Balkan and South East European region was a a typical rural country of small and middle scale farming and prevailing peasant population.At the beginning of the 20th century, many rural ...
Kristina Popova
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MICRO CREDIT SYSTEM IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST POVERTY: DIYARBAKIR CASE

, 2014
Abstract Poverty is one of the exceptional concepts on which whole humanity agreed on to be eliminated. Among the mechanisms aiming for eliminating poverty, the micro credit system, which enthralled every sphere by enabling its developer to win Nobel prize, is introduced to be among "One of the 10 Ideas that Changed the World" as of the ...
DOĞAN, Bahar Burtan, KAYA, Mehmet
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Tra locale e globale. Sostenibilità ed empowerment nelle retoriche delle esperienze di microcredito

EtnoAntropologia, 2014
Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize 2006) success in Bangladesh, has made microcredit a globally widespread practice. Since the early nineties, microcredit has been adopted by international development organizations as the privileged strategy not only in ...
Giovanna Guerzoni, Francesca Crivellaro
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