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Poverty

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A Better World for All: Outlines a series of developmental goals aiming to reduce global poverty, addressing issues such as education, gender equality, mortality, reproductive health, and the environment, together with corresponding performance indicators. Report is available in English, French, and Spanish, and is offered as either an HTML or a PDF file.
Author: International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, United Nations and World Bank
Subjects: development studies, poverty
DeweyClass: 338.9
Resource type: document
British Red Cross: UK wing of the volunteer-led humanitarian organisation that aims to help people in crisis, worlwide, by providing aid and resources. Official publications, details of how to volunteer and articles on the history and principles of the Red Cross are provided.
Author: The British Red Cross Society
Subjects: humanitarian relief, poverty
DeweyClass: 361.7634
Resource type: documents
Christian Aid: An aid agency that works for and is supported by the churches in the UK and Ireland, Christian Aid works wherever the need is greatest, irrespective of religion. This resource includes information about the organisation and its aims, reports on emergency, refugee and crisis situations around the world, and offers sections entitled news, campaign, world, in-depth, worship and learnzone.
Author: Christian Aid
Subjects: christianity, poverty
DeweyClass: 200
Resource type: documents
Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor: Presents a UK Government White Paper discussing various benefits to the world's poor which could result from the rapid economic developments accompanying globalisation. Sets out strategies for achieving this, and covers topics such as governance and poverty, the global environment, and skills development.
Author: UK Government
Subjects: economic development, poverty
DeweyClass: 362.5
Resource type: documents
European Anti-Poverty Network: Offers information on poverty and social exclusion in the member states of the European Union. Provides details of EAPN's lobbying activities, publications, and press releases.
Author: European Anti-Poverty Network
Subjects: poverty
DeweyClass: 362.5
Resource type: documents
Global Poverty Report: Identifies regional and global poverty issues and trends, examines the roles which the IMF, World Bank, and other development banks can play at individual country level in alleviating poverty, and suggests ways in which these organisations can work together to this end.
Author: G8 Okinawa Summit
Subjects: economic development, poverty
DeweyClass: 362.5
Resource type: document
Halving World Poverty by 2015: Report from the DfID which examines strategies to reduce the number of people in the world living in extreme poverty to 15 percent by 2015. Also considers issues of human and social development such as infant and maternal mortality rates, gender equality, and access to primary education.
Author: ELDIS
Subjects: economic development, poverty
DeweyClass: 338.9
Resource type: document
Hunger Site: Offers the opportunity to donate food to hungry people around the world, paid for by sponsors. Documents donation totals since June 1999, and a breakdown of totals donated by each country. General facts about hunger are available in over 50 languages, and an index of hunger and relief organisations is provided.
Author: Hunger Site
Subjects: food consumption, poverty, world population
DeweyClass: 362.5
Resource type: documents
ICRAF: International Centre for Research in Agroforestry: An autonomous, non-profit international organisation whose purpose is to help mitigate tropical deforestation, land depletion and rural poverty through improved agroforestry systems. ICRAF conducts strategic and applied research, in partnership with national institutions, aimed at developing appropriate agroforestry technologies for more sustainable and productive land use. Includes news reports on agroforestry related issues around the world.
Author: International Centre for Research in Agroforestry
Subjects: agricultural policy, agricultural research, forestry, poverty
DeweyClass: 634.99
Resource type: documents, news
Intute: social sciences - poverty: Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to poverty.
Author: Intute
Subjects: poverty
DeweyClass: 362.5
Resource type: index
National Minimum Wage: The Story so Far: Assesses results of the implementation of a National Minimum Wage in the UK in April 1999. Claims that a large number of people have benefited from the minimum wage, that most business have found the resultant costs to be manageable, that employment has continued to grow in the low-pay sector of the economy, and that both employers and workers have adapted to the change. Also offers developmental suggestions concerning younger workers, compliance and enforcement, pay, working time, and government funding. Report is presented as PDF document.
Author: Low Pay Commission
Subjects: employment, poverty
DeweyClass: 331
Resource type: document
Oxfam UK and Ireland: Oxfam is a development and relief agency working to put an end to poverty worldwide. Oxfam works in partnership with local groups and with poor people to help them help themselves.
Author: Oxfam
Subjects: humanitarian relief, poverty
DeweyClass: 362.5
Resource type: documents
Planet Aid: Charity addressing issues of sustainability, health and development through education and teaching, with the aim of supporting self-sustaining communities in the developing world through the dissemination of good practice. Planet Aid raise funds through the sale of second hand goods and actively seek volunteer Development Instructors.
Author: Soe, Birgit
Subjects: humanitarian relief, poverty
DeweyClass: 362.5
Resource type: documents
Population and Reproductive Health: As part of the Development Gateway which provides information on sustainable development and poverty reduction, this collection of resources relates to population and reproductive health. Key issues such as migration and refugees, fertility and mortality, sexually-transmitted diseases, and population and the environment are addressed, and programs and projects, a calendar of events, and a selection of daily news sources are featured.
Author: United Nations Population Fund
Subjects: poverty, reproduction, world population
DeweyClass: 304.6
Resource type: documents, index
PovertyNet: Resources and Support to Alleviate Poverty: Resources for organisations working to alleviate poverty worldwide, including reference data, newsletters and library materials. Topics covered include understanding and responding to poverty, inequality, social cohesion, safety nets and the social crisis in East Asia.
Author: World Bank
Subjects: poverty
DeweyClass: 362.5
Resource type: documents
Pro-Poor Tourism: Putting Poverty at the Heart of the Tourism Agenda: Assesses the effect of tourism on the livelihoods of the poor and considers the significance of tourism in poverty stricken countries. Factors which restrict and encourage the participation of the poor in the industry are outlined, and ways in which the tourist industry can become pro-poor are suggested.
Author: Overseas Development Institute
Subjects: poverty, world travel and tourism
DeweyClass: 338.479
Resource type: document
Real Change: Seattle's Homeless Newspaper: Non-profit newspaper from Seattle on homelessness and poverty. News, art, poetry, and opinion. Two full issues and an index of archives provided.
Author: Real Change
Subjects: homelessness, housing, poverty, social welfare
DeweyClass: 362.5
Resource type: magazine
Smart Library on Urban Poverty: Collection of information about urban poverty, including details of research on major social institutions and processes, programs evaluating research of major social and economic experiments, first person narratives about social processes and problems, headlines posted daily, topic searches and information about authors.
Author: Harvard University and NISSI
Subjects: poverty
DeweyClass: 361
Resource type: documents
Social Disadvantage Research Group Home Page: Includes articles from current research projects, which cover topics like the dynamics of parents on benefit; the impact of poverty on minority ethnic groups; mapping rural poverty; and educational disadvantage and local school choice.
Author: Oxford University Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Research
Subjects: poverty, social welfare
DeweyClass: 362.5
Resource type: articles
State of Food Insecurity in the World 1999: Report from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation estimating the number of people who go hungry in the industrialised world and transitional countries, and monitoring progress towards fulfilling the goal of halving the number of undernourished people in the world by 2015. Analyses reasons behind significant gains or setbacks relating to food levels during the 1990s. Report is presented as a PDF file.
Author: UN Food and Agriculture Organisation
Subjects: food consumption, nutrition, poverty
DeweyClass: 363.8
Resource type: document
Supporting Families in Transition: A Guide to Expanding Health Coverage in the Post-Welfare Reform World: Publication providing information on Medicaid coverage expansion options. Organised into four chapters, the publication deals with Reaching Families Who Seek TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) Assistance, Maintaining Coverage for Families Who Leave TANF Assistance, Reaching Families Outside the TANF System and Funding Opportunities.
Author: US Department of Health and Human Services
Subjects: poverty, social welfare
DeweyClass: 362.5
Resource type: document
Trade, Income Disparity and Poverty: World Trade Organisation report finding that the liberalisation of trade helps poor countries to catch up with rich ones. Discusses trade, growth, and disparity among nations, the connection between trade and poverty, income, economic growth, taxes and spending, and price changes and the transmission of shocks. Report is available in English, French, and Spanish in PDF format.
Author: World Trade Organisation
Subjects: economic development, international trade, poverty
DeweyClass: 382
Resource type: document
UNDP: United Nations Development Programme: UNDP promotes sustainable human development. Includes information on the UNDP purpose and aims, news and announcements, details of UNDP activities, a section monitoring progress on sustainable development, general UN information, environment information, and the UN poverty clock which indicates the growth in poverty around the world.
Author: United Nations
Subjects: development studies, economic development, poverty, united nations
DeweyClass: 338.9
Resource type: documents, news
World Bank Development Forum: A forum encouraging dialogue and knowledge-sharing, among international development community members, on issues facing the development community and the world's poor. Includes an ongoing series of development dialogues, Speaker's Corner where members of the development community speak their mind, case studies, and terms and conditions for participating in forum dialogues.
Author: World Bank Group
Subjects: development studies, poverty
DeweyClass: 338.9
Resource type: forum
World Bank Poverty in Africa Survey Databank: Provides an ongoing examination of African poverty, and World Bank efforts to monitor the situation. Features the Africa Household Survey Databank (AHSD) which offers results from socio-economic surveys of African countries which have been carried out over the past decade.
Author: World Bank
Subjects: african studies, poverty
DeweyClass: 330
Resource type: documents
World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty: World bank report arguing that major reductions in global poverty are achievable, but will require an approach which addresses the needs of the poor in terms of opportunity, empowerment, and security. The report is complemented by a collection of background documents, including an archive of discussions on the draft of the report.
Author: World Bank
Subjects: development studies, economic development, poverty
DeweyClass: 362.5
Resource type: documents