Poverty Alleviation
Documents on Povery Alleviation (158)
Author:
E Skinner,
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Nov 2011
Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move ...
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Author:
Z. Moosa; J. Woodroffe,
Fawcett Society, Jun 2009
Forty percent of ethnic minority women live in poverty in the UK - twice the proportion of White women. Poverty extends to more than a third of Black women and ...
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Author:
R. Albone;E. Cain,
HelpAge International, Dec 2008
At a time in their lives when many older people might expect to be cared for by their own children, a growing number, particularly women, are taking on caring roles ...
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Author:
D. Peacock;M. Weston,
United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , Oct 2008
What drives the enormous burden of AIDS-related care which falls on women and girls? What strategies are needed to reduce this burden? Rather than focusing only on ways to increase ...
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Author:
M. Ishii-Kuntz,
, Oct 2008
How is the division of childcare and housework between Japanese women and men changing? To counteract a decline in birthrate, since the early 1990s the Japanese government has introduced a ...
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