From poverty to power : how active citizens and effective states can change the world / Duncan Green.

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Main Author: Green, Duncan
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Herndon, VA : Oxfam International ; [Distributed in the USA by] Stylus Pub., 2008.
Subjects:
Political participation.
Government, Resistance to.
Poverty.
Equality.
Economische ongelijkheid.
Armoede.
Bestrijding.
Politieke aspecten.
Physical Description:xvi, 522 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • PART 1. Introduction
  • The unequal world
  • PART 2. Power and Politics
  • The political roots of development
  • I have rights, therefore I am
  • How change happens: a revolution for Bolivia's Chiquitano people
  • I believe, therefore I am
  • I read, therefore I am
  • I surf, therefore I am
  • We organise, therefore we are
  • How change happens: winning women's rights in Morocco
  • I own, therefore I am
  • I vote, therefore I am
  • I steal, therefore I am
  • I rule, therefore I am
  • From poverty to power
  • PART 3. Poverty and Wealth
  • An economics for the twenty-first century
  • Living off the land
  • How change happens: the fishing communities of Tikamgarh
  • The changing world of work
  • Private sector, public interest
  • Going for growth
  • How change happens: Botswana and Mauritius: two African success stories
  • Sustainable markets
  • PART 4. Risk and Vulnerability
  • Living with risk
  • Social protection
  • How change happens: India's campaign for a National Rural Employment Guarantee
  • Finance and vulnerability
  • Hunger and famine
  • HIV, AIDS, and other health risks
  • How change happens: South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign
  • The risk of natural disaster
  • Climate change
  • Living on the edge: Africa's pastoralists
  • Violence and conflict
  • Shocks and change
  • PART 5. The International System
  • Who rules the world?
  • The international financial system
  • The international trading system
  • The international aid system
  • How change happens: the 2005 Gleneagles Agreements
  • The international system for humanitarian relief and peace
  • How change happens: landmines, an arms-control success story
  • Climate change
  • Global governance in the twenty-first century
  • PART 6. Conclusion
  • A new deal for a new century
  • ANNEX: How Change Happens.