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  Title

  World poverty

  Author

  Alters, Sandra.  

  Publisher:

  Gale, Cengage Learning,

  Pub date:

  c2013

  Pages:

  viii, 171 p. :

  ISBN:

  9781414481517

  Item info:

  2 copies available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library and Aurora Campus.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HC79 .P6 A48 2012	1	Reference Book	Contemporary Issues
    Aurora Campus	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HC79 .P6 A48 2012	1	Reference Book	Contemporary Issues

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  ISBN:

  9781414481517

  ISBN:

  1414481519

  Personal Author:

  Alters, Sandra.

  Title:

  World poverty / Sandra M. Alters.

  Edition:

  2012 ed.

  Publication info:

  Detroit, Mich. : Gale, Cengage Learning, c2013

  Physical description:

  viii, 171 p. : ill., maps, graphs ; 28 cm.

  Series Statement:

  (Information plus reference series)

  Series Statement:

  (Information series on current topics)

  General Note:

  "Formerly published by Information Plus, Wylie, Texas."

  Contents:

  1. What is poverty? -- 2. The causes of poverty and the search for solutions -- 3. Poverty in underdeveloped countries, the poorest of the poor -- 4. Emerging and transition economies : widening the poverty gap -- 5. Poverty in the developing world -- 6.The poor in developed countries -- 7. Women and children in poverty -- 8. Poverty and environmental hazards -- 9. Poverty and violent conflict -- 10. Combating poverty : hope for the future? -- Important names and addresses.

  Summary:

  Examines the forms that poverty takes around the world, its many causes, the serious negative consequences that it has for individuals and societies, and the effort to eliminate it.

  Held by:

  TODD AURORA

  Subject term:

  Poverty.

  Added Entry-Corporate Name:

  Gale Group.

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