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Microcredit and the Struggle Against Poverty

open access: yes, 2011
Finding a common definition of «microcredit» is difficult both in the operative and in the academic field. Acknowledging that difficulty is a first step towards recognizing the specificity and plurality of microfinance experiences today. The multiplication of many completely different models enables us to describe microfinance as a sort of «galaxy ...
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Settlement area approach to the struggle against poverty: Two step formula for poverty

open access: yes, 2011
Settlement area approach to the struggle against poverty: Two step formula for ...
Metin TOPRAK, Toprak, Metin
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Mercosur and the Struggle against Poverty

2016
Structural challenges from the past persist in South America’s reality at the beginning of the 21st century. Poverty and social inequality, problems intrinsic to the region and its societies, remain as obstacles to development. It was only in the post-Cold War period that the fight against poverty became a research topic in international studies.
Tullo Vigevani, Juliano A. S. Aragusuku
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Overcoming Marginality as an Objective of the Struggle Against Poverty

2021
This chapter presents basic ideas of Elsenhans’ theory of development. Following him, underdeveloped economies can be defined as economies structured by marginality of large masses of the population. Essential mechanisms of capitalist economies as described in mainstream economics do not work in these economies: At low levels of development, a ...
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Cuba and the struggle against global poverty

Socialism and Democracy, 2000
(2000). Cuba and the struggle against global poverty. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 1-25.
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Canada and the Struggle against World Poverty

International Journal, 1969
A revolution in Canadian foreign policy took place from 1948 to 1951. 1 was privileged to be one of the makers of the revolution. I was Lester Pearson's senior adviser in the Department of External Affairs for most of the time on most of the issues. That revolution established new priorities in Canadian foreign policy.
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Against the odds: politicians, institutions and the struggle against poverty

Contemporary South Asia, 2016
This book shines much needed light on political leaders and the political strategies they adopted to achieve poverty alleviation.
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Raising critical consciousness in the struggle against poverty: Breaking a culture of silence

Critical Social Policy, 2019
Since people in poverty often lower their aspirations in line with their position in society, an important role of social workers is to encourage people in poverty to reflect on the connection of their situation to the socio-political context and to address their internalised oppression.
Katrien Boone, Griet Roets, Rudi Roose
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Extent of poverty and the struggle against poverty in the Republic of Croatia

SEER. South-East Europe review for labour and social affairs, 2006
The author presents the main results of leading research studies into poverty and also identifies some of their drawbacks and disadvantages. Then, outlines the thesis that if the intention is to decrease significantly the poverty rate in Croatia, it is necessary, among other measures, to implement at the macro level a number of measures which would ...
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