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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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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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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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America's Struggle Against Poverty, 1900-1980.

The Journal of Southern History, 1982
William F. Holmes, James T. Patterson
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Microcredit and the Struggle Against Poverty

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 ...
CRIVELLARO, FRANCESCA, GUERZONI, GIOVANNA   +1 more
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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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MICROCREDIT PRACTICES IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST POVERTY IN TURKEY

2012
Son yıllarda gündeme sık sık taşınan yoksulluk konusu yoksullukla mücadele yöntemlerinin ve yoksulluğun sonuçlarını hafifletici mekanizmaların daha yoğun tartışılmasını da beraberinde getirmiştir. Bugün birçok ülke şiddet derecesi ne olursa olsun az ya da çok bu sorun ile iç içe yaşamaktadır ve dolayısı ile yoksullukla mücadele etmek durumunda ...
ATEŞ, Gürkan, ÖĞÜTOĞULLARI, Eren
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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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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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THE POVERTY AND WEALTH MEASURE (NİSAP) UNDER THE MODERN ALMS (ZEKÂT) MODEL RELATING TO STRUGGLE AGAINST POVERTY

2019
The Islamic religion considers Muslims who have more than their goods/revenue as the wealthy. So people who have goods/revenue over the wealth measure called “Nisap” have to pay “Zekât”. How should “Nisap”, which can be a criterion of wealth in our century, be determined?
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