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Book Synopsis Urban Poverty and Violence in Jamaica by : Caroline O. N. Moser
Download or read book Urban Poverty and Violence in Jamaica written by Caroline O. N. Moser and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report conducts a comprehensive analysis of India's stabilization and reform program over the past five years, describing a successful transition from central planning to a more open and deregulated economy. In addition to the progress the country has made, the report cites challenges to future growth and points to areas of priority action, such as improving urban services and investing in human capital. The report addresses specific topics, including (i) fiscal consolidation and debt dynamics; (ii) public expenditure and tax reforms; (iii) money and bond markets; (iv) contractual savings institutions; (v) agricultural trade liberalization and rural development; (vi) investing in private infrastructure; and (vii) the external environment and India's export competitiveness.
Book Synopsis Urban Poverty and Violence in Jamaica by : Caroline Moser
Download or read book Urban Poverty and Violence in Jamaica written by Caroline Moser and published by World Bank Group. This book was released on 1998-03-31 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Participatory Study of Urban Poverty and Violence in Jamaica by : Caroline O. N. Moser
Download or read book A Participatory Study of Urban Poverty and Violence in Jamaica written by Caroline O. N. Moser and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Jamaica by : World Bank. Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office. Human and Social Development Group
Download or read book Jamaica written by World Bank. Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office. Human and Social Development Group and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jamaica written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Urban poverty and violence by : Herbert Samuel Gayle
Download or read book Urban poverty and violence written by Herbert Samuel Gayle and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Touring Trench Town by : Alana Diane Osbourne
Download or read book Touring Trench Town written by Alana Diane Osbourne and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most tourists who venture to Trench Town, and to the small Culture Yard museum it houses, are drawn in by the area's rich musical heritage. It is the birthplace of reggae, and where Bob Marley, who grew up in the neighbourhood and famously sung about it, mingled and jammed with other figureheads of Jamaica's musical scene. The sonic art of Trench Town, along with references to Kingston's downtown 'ghetto life', infuse Jamaican visual and musical culture. While these spark visitors' wish to experience Trench Town and embark on walking tours of the neighbourhood, they also inform tourist imaginaries of ghetto poverty and crime. Local guides, who (for the most part) live in Trench Town, are aware of tourists' desires to experience snippets of life tinted by poverty and violence. In this dissertation, I analyse tourism patterns in Trench Town to understand how low-income residents participate in encounters predicated on the consumption of inequality. My dissertation draws on the case of tourism in Trench Town to address how urban poverty and violence are experienced, sensed and ultimately sold, unpacking the political and economic implications of this form of commodification. This research explores how poverty and violence are transformed into products, and what benefits residents of marginalised - yet destination - neighbourhoods such as Trench Town can derive from selling glimpses of deprivation and conflict. I tie these questions to larger debates in urban studies and anthropology that are concerned with the transformation of places into goods for exchange.
Book Synopsis Demeaned But Empowered by : Obika Gray
Download or read book Demeaned But Empowered written by Obika Gray and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gray's central thesis asserts that the Jamaican state is a form of predatory state that incorporates contradictory social forces into an arrangement that is hierarchical, often brutal and ultimately debilitating to democracy. He introduces a series of constructs to support this argument, but the more interesting and novel theses are to be found in his vivid description of the social forces that resist the predatory state and how they have carved out a modicum of autonomy based on what he describes as an elaborate value system of badness/honour.
Book Synopsis Analyzing Urban Poverty by : Judy Baker
Download or read book Analyzing Urban Poverty written by Judy Baker and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In recent years an extensive body of literature has emerged on the definition, measurement, and analysis of poverty. Much of this literature focuses on analyzing poverty at the national level, or spatial disaggregation by general categories of urban or rural areas, with adjustments made for regional price differentials. Yet for an individual city attempting to tackle the problems of urban poverty, this level of aggregation is not sufficient for answering specific questions such as where the poor are located in the city, whether there are differences between poor areas, if access to services varies by subgroup, whether specific programs are reaching the poorest, and how to design effective poverty reduction programs and policies. Answering these questions is critical, particularly for large, sprawling cities with highly diverse populations and growing problems of urban poverty. Understanding urban poverty presents a set of issues distinct from general poverty analysis and thus may require additional tools and techniques. Baker and Schuler summarize the main issues in conducting urban poverty analysis, with a focus on presenting a sample of case studies from urban areas that were implemented by a number of different agencies using a range of analytical approaches for studying urban poverty. Specific conclusions regarding design and analysis, data, timing, cost, and implementation issues are discussed. This paper-a product of the Urban Unit, Transport and Urban Development Department-is part of a larger effort in the department to promote strategies for reducing urban poverty"--World Bank web site.
Book Synopsis The Urban Poor in Latin America by : Marianne Fay
Download or read book The Urban Poor in Latin America written by Marianne Fay and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About half of the region's poor live in cities, and policy makers across Latin America are increasingly interested in policy advice on how to design programmes and policies to tackle poverty. This publication argues that the causes of poverty, the nature of deprivation, and the policy levers to fight poverty are, to a large extent, site specific. It therefore focuses on strategies to assist the urban poor in making the most of the opportunities offered by cities, such as larger labour markets and better services, while helping them cope with the negative aspects, such as higher housing costs, pollution, risk of crime and less social capital.
Book Synopsis Urban Poor Perceptions of Violence and Exclusion in Colombia by : Caroline O. N. Moser
Download or read book Urban Poor Perceptions of Violence and Exclusion in Colombia written by Caroline O. N. Moser and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crisis in Columbia represents a challenge to the economy, the institutions and the values of its society. Columbia remains plagued by violence despite sustained improvements in its social and economic indicators. The perception of this violence by people living in poor communities is the subject of this report. Local communities identified the pervasive nature of political violence, the problem of displaced persons, and the lack of employment that leads to drug use, crime and violence. Suggested approaches were to create job opportunities; attack the problem of drug use; reduce society's tolerance for intrahousehold violence; rebuild trust in the police and judicial system; strengthen community-based organisations, particularly those run by women; target interventions at young people.
Book Synopsis Blood, Bullets And Bodies by : Imani M. Tafari-Ama
Download or read book Blood, Bullets And Bodies written by Imani M. Tafari-Ama and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifth Edition The true story of Blood, Bullets and Bodies: a critical multimedia exposé about the factors subverting the political will to act in the best interest of the poor, even when explicit just cause exists for such altruistic action to take place… Blood, Bullets and Bodies is a strange and paradoxical story that needs to be read as much as it needs to be told. It is a riveting story of sex, violence, political intrigue and survival by any means necessary. The book is a literary mirror that provides a revealing and frightening reflection for a self-destructing society to see itself profiled in the throes of its own possible demise. Sure to stir controversy, the new book contains a compelling rendition of the historical circumstances that have made crime and violence – bullets, blood and dead bodies – the number one problem in late 20th and early 21st century Jamaica. Despite the historic One Love Peace Concert and the Peace Truce in 1978, young gunmen seem to have gone wild ever since. Using a variety of sophisticated methodological tools including literary sources, oral interviews, ethnographic studies and the lyrics of popular Reggae songs, Imani Tafari-Ama details the influences and implications of this violent social discourse for everyday performances of femininity and masculinity in Kingston’s inner-city environment as well as in the wider Jamaican society. Tafari-Ama’s stated objective in publishing her thesis as a book is to separate fact from fiction in order to find real and enduring solutions that will reduce the distressing flood of blood, bullets and bodies that is overflowing the streets of Kingston. She hopes that by highlighting some of the facts and exposing much of the fiction about life below the poverty line, her provocative book will be a catalyst in motivating the political and community willpower necessary to find and implement the real-time solutions that she proposes in her suggested Options for Development.
Book Synopsis Blood, Bullets and Bodies by : Imani M. Tafari-Ama
Download or read book Blood, Bullets and Bodies written by Imani M. Tafari-Ama and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blood, bullets and bodies is Imani Tafare-Ama's quick catch-all way of describing the rapidly deteriorating situation on the streets of Kingston's inner-cities, a crisis situation spawned by the entrenched political economy of violence, power, gender and embodiment that is running amok in the concrete jungles of the Jamaican capital. This case study focuses on Southside, one of the inner-city communities in Kingston. Ms. Tafari-Ama's objective is to analyse this post-plantation island state's political economy, which has produced the unfortunate combination of poverty and violence in the urban areas."--page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis Demeaned But Empowered by : Obika Gray
Download or read book Demeaned But Empowered written by Obika Gray and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives by : Caroline O.N. Moser
Download or read book Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives written by Caroline O.N. Moser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after Oscar Lewis's famous depiction of five Mexican families caught in a "culture of poverty," Caroline Moser tells a very different story of five neighborhood women and their families strategically accumulating assets to escape poverty in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil. In Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives, Moser shows how a more sophisticated understanding of the complexities of asset accumulation as well as poverty itself can help counter inaccurate stereotypes about global poverty. It provides invaluable insight into strategies that may help people in developing countries improve their wellbeing. The similar socioeconomic characteristics and economic circumstances of the Guayaquil families in 1978, when Moser began her research, set the stage for a natural experiment. By 2004, these circumstances varied widely. Moser captures the causes and consequences of these developments through economic data, anthropological narrative, and personal photos. She then places this compelling story within the broader context of political, economic, and spatial changes in Guayaquil and Ecuador. Moser describes how households in a Third World urban slum relentlessly and systematically fought to accumulate human, social, and financial capital assets. Her longitudinal account of their odyssey captures long-term trends and changes in perception that are missed in snapshot assessments. Chapters in this holistic story cover diverse issues such as housing and infrastructure, community mobilization and political negotiation, employment, family dynamics, violence, and emigration.
Book Synopsis "Nobody's Children" by : Rosa Ehrenreich
Download or read book "Nobody's Children" written by Rosa Ehrenreich and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the United Nations
Book Synopsis Urban Violence and Insecurity by : Caroline O N Moser
Download or read book Urban Violence and Insecurity written by Caroline O N Moser and published by IIED. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
