How Uganda's vibrant religious infrastructure supports local and interfaith community care efforts For millions living on the African continent, the experience of poverty is a facet of life. While many scholars, activists, and policy experts work in African communities to mitigate poverty, they often miss a crucial dimension of contemporary ......
Governments can boost climate resilience by expanding access to information, promoting insurance, and investing in infrastructure. In South Asia, these actions are key to protecting people. Given limited public resources, the private sector will be key to driving solutions. The book lays out a policy roadmap to help unlock impact.
Taxes, Benefits, and Incentives in Latin America and the Caribbean
This report aims to deepen our understanding of informality of work and employment outcomes in Latin American and Caribbean labor markets, focusing on the interplay between personal income taxation, social protection policies, and consequently firm and workers' incentives to (in)formalize agreements.
Rethinking Food and Nutrition Security in the Middle East and North Africa
The report informs the policy dialogue and World Bank engagement on food and nutrition security in Middle East and North Africa through food system transformation at a critical economic and geopolitical juncture in the region.
This influential book describes the knowledge and skills teachers, school administrators, and other educators need to combat bias and inequity that deny students experiencing poverty the levels of educational access and opportunity their wealthier peers often enjoy. Written in an engaging, conversational style that makes complex concepts ......
This influential book describes the knowledge and skills teachers, school administrators, and other educators need to combat bias and inequity that deny students experiencing poverty the levels of educational access and opportunity their wealthier peers often enjoy. Written in an engaging, conversational style that makes complex concepts ......
This text explores the factors that contribute to the existence of poverty, as well as the social, developmental, and environmental ramifications of poverty. Through scholarly studies, case studies, historical events, and contemporary happenings, readers examine the connections between poverty and family-related challenges, including adverse ......
In Oklahoma, one out of every six residents is poor. One in five children lives in poverty and faces food insecurity. In Hungry Oklahoma, native son and sociologist Robert Lee Maril follows in the tradition of the national best-sellers Nickel and Dimed and Evicted to illuminate the lived experience of poverty and food insecurity in communities ......
