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From poverty to power : how active citizens and effective states can change the world / Duncan Green.
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- Author/Creator:
- Green, Duncan, author.
- Series:
- Columbia International Affairs Online.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation.
- Government, Resistance to.
- Poverty.
- Equality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic resource (xvi, 470 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Rugby [England] : Practical Action Publishing ; Oxford : Oxfam GB, [2012]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 INTRODUCTION
- The unequal world
- pt. 2 POWER AND POLITICS
- The political roots of development
- I have rights, therefore I am
- How change happens: A revolution for Bolivia's Chiquitano people
- I believe, therefore I am
- I read, therefore I am
- I surf, therefore I am
- We organise, therefore we are
- How change happens: Winning women's rights in Morocco
- I own, therefore I am
- I vote, therefore I am
- I steal, therefore I am: Natural resources, corruption, and development
- I rule, therefore I am
- From poverty to power
- pt. 3 POVERTY AND WEALTH
- An economics for the twenty-first century
- Living off the land
- How change happens: The fishing communities of Tikamgarh
- The changing world of work
- Private sector, public interest
- Going for growth
- How change happens: Two African success stories (Botswana and Mauritius)
- Sustainable markets
- pt. 4 HUMAN SECURITY
- Living with risk
- Social protection
- How change happens: India's campaign for a National Rural Employment Guarantee
- Finance and vulnerability
- Hunger and famine
- HIV, AIDS, and other health risks
- How change happens: South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign
- The risk of natural disaster
- Climate change: Mitigation, adaptation, organisation
- Living on the edge: Africa's pastoralists
- Violence and conflict
- Shocks and change
- pt. 5 THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
- Who rules the world?
- The international financial system
- The international trading system
- The international aid system
- How change happens: The 2005 Gleneagles Agreements
- International rules and norms
- The international system for humanitarian relief and peace
- How change happens: Landmines, an arms control success story
- Climate change
- Global governance in the twenty-first century
- pt. 6 THE FOOD AND FINANCIAL CRISES OF 2008-11
- The food and financial crises of 2008-11
- The global financial crisis
- Living on a spike: The food price crises of 2008 and 2011
- pt. 7 CONCLUSION
- A new deal for a new century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-446) and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781780447407
- 178044740X
- OCLC:
- 857974444
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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