Rural Poverty in the United States
Author | : United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty |
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Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Poor |
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Author | : United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty |
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Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Poor |
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Author | : Ann R. Tickamyer |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2017-08-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231544715 |
America's rural areas have always held a disproportionate share of the nation's poorest populations. Rural Poverty in the United States examines why. What is it about the geography, demography, and history of rural communities that keeps them poor? In a comprehensive analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, Rural Poverty in the United States looks at access to human and social capital; food security; healthcare and the environment; homelessness; gender roles and relations; racial inequalities; and immigration trends to isolate the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty. Contributors to this volume incorporate approaches from multiple disciplines, including sociology, economics, demography, race and gender studies, public health, education, criminal justice, social welfare, and other social science fields. They take a hard look at current and past programs to alleviate rural poverty and use their failures to suggest alternatives that could improve the well-being of rural Americans for years to come. These essays work hard to define rural poverty's specific metrics and markers, a critical step for building better policy and practice. Considering gender, race, and immigration, the book appreciates the overlooked structural and institutional dimensions of ongoing rural poverty and its larger social consequences.
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an independent body set up in 1978 to promote the increase of food production in the poorest food deficit countries. The Rural Poverty Report reassesses the nature and causes of world wide rural poverty and outlines policies designed to promote its alleviation.
Author | : Idriss Jazairy |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0814737544 |
Despite almost four decades and billions of dollars in development activities, we are barely in a position to track the changing dynamics of poverty or to define with conviction the processes that entrap the poor in their misery. Accounting for about 90% of global poverty, rural poverty, through transmigration, is also a main contributor to urban poverty. It is in the rural areas of the world where poverty is most severe in human terms, where the hunger, hopelessness, hardship, and despair commonly associated with entrenched poverty are most pronounced, where basic health services, sanitation, educational opportunities, and other common amenities are most lacking. The alleviation of rural poverty is therefore tantamount to the alleviation of global poverty in its entirety. The State of World Rural Poverty offers the first comprehensive look at the economic conditions and prospects of the world's rural poor.
Author | : United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty |
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Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Poor |
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Author | : International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) |
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development argues that, to be successful, poverty-reduction policies must focus on rural areas. To overcome disadvantages stemming from remoteness, lack of education and health care, insecure and unproductive jobs, high fertility and (often) discrimination as women or ethnic minorities, the rural poor need: legally secure entitlements to assets (especially land and water); technology (above all for increasing the output and yield of food staples); access to markets; opportunities to participate in decentralized resource management; and access to microfinance. Such policies not only promote economic growth but also help alleviate urban poverty. A sustainable reduction in poverty calls for the creation of a pro-poor policy environment, and allocation of a greater volume of resources targeted to the poor with greater effectiveness. This needs to be complemented by better partnership among government, civil society and the private sector so that the poor are empowered to take responsibility for their own development.
Author | : Etats-Unis. President's National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty |
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Total Pages | : 601 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Poor |
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) offers access to the current "Rural Poverty Report" in PDF format. IFAD asserts that for poverty reduction to be successful policies must focus on rural areas.