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Poverty, education and development / Francis Godwyll and So Young Kang, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty.
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Globalization.
- Economic policy.
- Marginality, Social.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Addressing the state of poverty and its effects on education and development, this book focuses on the state of the lives of the peoples in Africa as a result of poverty, and poverty in relation to gender.
- Contents:
- An analysis of structural adjustment program and food security in two selected countries in Africa / Francis E. Godwyll and Ebenezer Malcalm
- Poverty in Africa : an inherited, created and superimposed epidemic / Robert J. Wafula
- Debt, burden, and poverty in Africa / Patrick A. Brobbey
- Perpetuators or alleviators : the politics of globalization and poverty in Africa / Dominic S. Dadzie
- Globalization of market economy : Kenya's experience of structural adjustment programs and political democratization / Ongito J. Ongoro
- Illegal organ trade : capitalizing on life and death / Brooke Merryfield and Edward Akita
- Empowering poor communities for change : the role of civil society participation in Ghana's poverty reduction strategy / Collins Annin
- Economic globalization : a stimulus for inequities and injustice in the lives of the powerless in Thailand / Tae Ito and Pittaya Paladroi-Shane
- Hidden poverty in Japan : current situation and problem of homelessness / Yuko Shimizu and Mito Takeuchi
- Making poverty invisible : a case study of Starehe Boys Centre and School, Kenya / Peter C. Otiato
- Relational poverty : enrichment through care theory / Soyoung Kang
- Gender, poverty and female education in Sub-Saharan Africa / Fanta Diamanka and Francis E. Godwyll
- One girl for one T.V. : issues of human trafficking and sexual slavery in the era of globalization / Marah Eakin
- The Karen refugee women : their survival stories / Yumiko Harada
- Women's health issues in developing countries / Paige Miller
- The role of non-governmental organizations in the de-feminization of poverty / Mohira Kurbanova
- Poverty and the phenomenon of women as heads of households in post 1994 Rwandan genocide / Joseph Mugenga
- Fertility transition in Ghana : women's education versus poverty reduction / Hector Addison
- Globalization and its impact on women in developing countries / Augustina Adusah-Karikari and Francis E. Godwyll.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61122-244-3
- OCLC:
- 776164423
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