Cooperating Out of Poverty
Title | Cooperating Out of Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | International Labour Office |
Publisher | International Labour Office |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Cooperatives are omnipresent in Africa and represent a significant part of the private sector in most African countries. Successful and economically viable cooperatives create economic opportunities, provide a basic level of social protection and security, and provide their members with voice and representation. Yet, there are weaknesses and deficiencies of cooperatives in certain countries or sectors that result in poor performance. This book offers an objective analysis of the state of affairs of the cooperative sector in Africa since the liberalization of the economy in the early 1990s. It contains a historical overview of cooperative development in the continent and in-depth country studies that illustrate not only the structure and operation of the cooperative sector, but also analyse the major strengths and weaknesses of various cooperative undertakings in Africa. The aim of this book is to alert governments, donors and researchers to a fragmented, dispersed movement and make a case for the viability of cooperatives in Africa
Rediscovering the Cooperative Advantage
Title | Rediscovering the Cooperative Advantage PDF eBook |
Author | Johnston Birchall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Cooperation |
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Moving Out of Poverty
Title | Moving Out of Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Deepa Narayan |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 580 |
Release | 2009-12-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0821381121 |
There is no peace with hunger. Only promises and promises and no fulfillment. If there is no job, there is no peace. If there is nothing to cook in the pot, there is no peace. - Oscar, a 57-year-old man, El Gorri n, Colombia They want to construct their houses near the road, and they cannot do that if they do not have peace with their enemies. So peace and the road have developed a symbiotic relation. One cannot live without the other. . . . - A community leader from a conflict-affected community on the island of Mindanao, Philippines Most conflict studies focus on the national level, but this volume focuses on the community level. It explores how communities experience and recover from violent conflict, and the surprising opportunities that can emerge for poor people to move out of poverty in these harsh contexts. 'Rising from the Ashes of Conflict' reveals how poor people s mobility is shaped by local democracy, people s associations, aid strategies, and the local economic environment in over 100 communities in seven conflict-affected countries, including Afghanistan. The findings suggest the need to rethink postconflict development assistance. This is the fourth volume in a series derived from the Moving Out of Poverty study, which explores mobility from the perspectives of poor people in more than 500 communities across 15 countries.
Collective Courage
Title | Collective Courage PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Gordon Nembhard |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2015-06-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0271064269 |
In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes’ Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing. To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.
Globalization and Poverty
Title | Globalization and Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Harrison |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 2007-11-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0226318001 |
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
International Cooperation on Poverty Reduction: Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind—International Joint Study Report (No.5)
Title | International Cooperation on Poverty Reduction: Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind—International Joint Study Report (No.5) PDF eBook |
Author | National Institute for Global Strategy |
Publisher | 社会科学文献出版社 |
Pages | 427 |
Release | 2019-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 7520156613 |
本书是《国际减贫合作:构建人类命运共同体》的英文版,由2018年11月举办的“改革开放与中国扶贫国际论坛”上中外嘉宾学者的发言和提交的论文修改完善而成,主要围绕:改革开放40年来中国取得的减贫成就、中国推动减贫脱贫中国理念转化为国际共识、减贫国际合作推动构建人类命运共同体等三个部分,讨论中国过去40年经验和成就,并讨论如何在此基础上迎接当前和未来挑战的机会,表明中国不仅有减贫的决心,更重要的是有将之落实的行动与举措。
Cooperating Out of Poverty?
Title | Cooperating Out of Poverty? PDF eBook |
Author | Heino Güldemann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783947621200 |