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Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan Revolution- and not necessarily by the Right. Historian Marisa Chappell provides a fresh look at the national debate about poverty, welfare, and economic rights from the 1960s through the mid-1990s. In Chappell's telling, we experience the debate over welfare from multiple perspectives, including those of conservatives of several types, liberal antipoverty experts, national liberal organizations, labor, government officials, feminists of various persuasions, and poor women themselves.

This article explores the relationship between mission healthcare and poverty reduction, by investigating the role that Ghana’s neo-Pentecostal mission healthcare plays in the latter. Currently, in Ghana, the role of missions in health and well-being has become more diverse and impactful. Through a qualitative interpretive method, data on the role of mission healthcare in poverty reduction were gathered from leading neo-Pentecostal mission health centres in Ghana. The article reveals, among others, that neo-Pentecostal movements are into healthcare, due to the biblical basis of health which teaches them the belief that the health of others is their responsibility. The analysis reveals that the significance of the contributions of neo-Pentecostals to poverty-reducing healthcare services lies in the current concerns of not only the global agenda for sustainable development, but also the neo-Pentecostals’ sense of public responsibility towards health and well-being, which many churches identify as a fundamental prerequisite nowadays.

Climate change and its associated risks continue to dominate global discourse, considering the negative effect on human existence. Despite a plethora of scientific publications on climate change with its associated risks globally and locally, there is limited empirical evidence from the Ghanaian Christian context. Consequently, hardly any research has been done to examine the social perception of Christians on climate change. A quantitative study was conducted using self-prepared questionnaires to examine the knowledge and social perception of Christians on climate change in the Nkroanza South Municipal. It was established that respondents understand climate change from the context of their indigenous knowledge systems. The study chi-square test (25.167, df) = 10, p = 0.005, indicated a statistically significant association between the duration of residence in the community and climate change awareness. The study further found a divergence in the general perception of climate change among the Christian community.

Many minority language communities in sub-Saharan Africa are required to navigate national education systems dominated by languages in which they are not largely proficient, and which they lack resources and tools to learn. When taken together with a low political will for resourcing minority languages, these become formidable barriers for learning and development (Matiki 2006: 244, 246; Prinsloo 2017: 20). Many minority languages are also not understood or spoken outside of these communities, and there are few resources to assist people to gain capacity in them, which results in large communication gaps. This paper examines how a team of non-professional Yawo lexicographers in Malawi worked to overcome these barriers in order to produce two limited-word bilingual learner’s dictionaries (English–Ciyawo; Ciyawo–English) in book and smartphone application forms. More specifically, it explains how the team was trained, the development of a limited organic corpus from oral interviews as a method for supplementing an unbalanced corpus, and the importance of collaboration. The paper also articulates the linguistic and pedagogical theories that are foundational to the project, including that second-language learners develop second-language competence more efficiently through engaging with a curated headword list of high-frequency and high-relevance words (Nation 2022: 15-17; Bayetto 2018: 12).

UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at once a history of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classical economists to the recent emphasis on human rights, and a history of the UN's role in shaping and implementing development paradigms over the last half century. The authors, all prominent in the field of development studies, argue that the UN's founding document, the UN Charter, is infused with the human values and human concerns that are at the center of the UN's thinking on economic and human development today. In the intervening period, the authors show how the UN's approach to development evolved from mainstream areas of economic development to include issues of employment, poverty reduction, fairer distribution of the benefits of growth, equality of men and women, child development, social justice, and environmental sustainability.

What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex-if no less necessary and nourishing-than the food that feeds their hunger. InNot by Bread Alone,the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world, Melissa L. Caldwell focuses on the everyday operations and civil transactions at CCM soup kitchens to reveal the new realities, the enduring features, and the intriguing subtext of social support in Russia today. In an international food aid community, Caldwell explores how Muscovites employ a number of improvisational tactics to satisfy their material needs. She shows how the relationships that develop among members of this community-elderly Muscovite recipients, Russian aid workers, African student volunteers, and North American and European donors and volunteers-provide forms of social support that are highly valued and ultimately far more important than material resources. InNot by Bread Alonewe see how the soup kitchens become sites of social stability and refuge for all who interact there-not just those with limited financial means-and how Muscovites articulate definitions of hunger and poverty that depend far more on the extent of one's social contacts than on material factors. By rethinking the ways in which relationships between social and economic practices are theorized-by identifying social relations and social status as Russia's true economic currency-this book challenges prevailing ideas about the role of the state, the nature of poverty and welfare, the feasibility of Western-style reforms, and the primacy of social connections in the daily lives of ordinary people in post-Soviet Russia.

This text addresses the understanding and alleviation of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a unique and broad mix of concepts. Most of the book's measurement and statistical tools have been programmed in DAD.

Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities—places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the “dictionary” she is compiling; and to trace the complex network of family, medicine, state, and economy in which her abandonment and pathology took form. An instant classic, Vita has been widely acclaimed for its bold fieldwork, theoretical innovation, and literary force. Reflecting on how Catarina’s life story continues, this updated edition offers the reader a powerful new afterword and gripping new photographs following Biehl and Eskerod’s return to Vita. Anthropology at its finest, Vita is essential reading for anyone who is grappling with how to understand the conditions of life, thought, and ethics in the contemporary world.

It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Back in the 1960s tackling poverty \"in place\" meant focusing resources in the inner city and in rural areas. The suburbs were seen as home to middle- and upper-class families-affluent commuters and homeowners looking for good schools and safe communities in which to raise their kids. But today's America is a very different place. Poverty is no longer just an urban or rural problem, but increasingly a suburban one as well. InConfronting Suburban Poverty in America, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube take on the new reality of metropolitan poverty and opportunity in America. After decades in which suburbs added poor residents at a faster pace than cities, the 2000s marked a tipping point. Suburbia is now home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the country and more than half of the metropolitan poor. However, the antipoverty infrastructure built over the past several decades does not fit this rapidly changing geography. As Kneebone and Berube cogently demonstrate, the solution no longer fits the problem. The spread of suburban poverty has many causes, including shifts in affordable housing and jobs, population dynamics, immigration, and a struggling economy. The phenomenon raises several daunting challenges, such as the need for more (and better) transportation options, services, and financial resources. But necessity also produces opportunity-in this case, the opportunity to rethink and modernize services, structures, and procedures so that they work in more scaled, cross-cutting, and resource-efficient ways to address widespread need. This book embraces that opportunity. Kneebone and Berube paint a new picture of poverty in America as well as the best ways to combat it.Confronting Suburban Poverty in Americaoffers a series of workable recommendations for public, private, and nonprofit leaders seeking to modernize poverty alleviation and community development strategies and connect residents with economic opportunity. The authors highlight efforts in metro areas where local leaders are learning how to do more with less and adjusting their approaches to address the metropolitan scale of poverty-for example, integrating services and service delivery, collaborating across sectors and jurisdictions, and using data-driven and flexible funding strategies. \"We believe the goal of public policy must be to provide all families with access to communities, whether in cities or suburbs, that offer a high quality of life and solid platform for upward mobility over time. Understanding the new reality of poverty in metropolitan America is a critical step toward realizing that goal.\"-from Chapter One

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a \"new slavery,\" one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains Bales. Instead, they are cheap, require little care, and are disposable. Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery. The enormous population explosion over the past three decades has flooded the world's labor markets with millions of impoverished, desperate people. The revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture has dispossessed poor farmers, making them and their families ready targets for enslavement. And rapid economic change in developing countries has bred corruption and violence, destroying social rules that might once have protected the most vulnerable individuals. Bales's vivid case studies present actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. He observes the complex economic relationships of modern slavery and is aware that liberation is a bitter victory for a child prostitute or a bondaged miner if the result is starvation. Bales offers suggestions for combating the new slavery and provides examples of very positive results from organizations such as Anti-Slavery International, the Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil, and the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan. He also calls for researchers to follow the flow of raw materials and products from slave to marketplace in order to effectively target campaigns of \"naming and shaming\" corporations linked to slavery. Disposable People is the first book to point the way to abolishing slavery in today's global economy.