Calcutta Poor: Inquiry into the Intractability of Poverty - Tapa dura

Thomas, Frederic C.

 
9781563249815: Calcutta Poor: Inquiry into the Intractability of Poverty
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ISBN 10: 1563249812 ISBN 13: 9781563249815
Editorial: Routledge, 1996

Sinopsis

This work shows how the poor survive in Calcutta where over half the population live in slums. It argues that since the major cities in India are half slum already, policies should accept that the poor are a part of the urban population and help them in finding the solution to improve their lives.

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Acerca del autor

Thomas, Frederic C.

De la contraportada

Calcutta is notorious for its pavement dwellers, street children, and scavengers that have become a portrait of the worst sort of human degradation. In this illuminating critique, Thomas investigates the standard solutions - improved housing, increased job creation, and intervention of social services agencies - only to come to the conclusion that such initiatives have little effect on the inherent nature of the problem of poverty. Based on historical and anthropological findings, and the author's visits to the slums of Calcutta, what becomes clear is that even in the midst of great poverty, there is a nobility of character, a vitality of ethnic and cultural ties, and an energy that bring out inventiveness and ingenuity in the lives of the poor. If Calcutta's poverty is not to be an intractable problem, these internal forces must be awakened to generate solutions. Illustrated with stunning photographs, Thomas's reflections provide new insight into an age-old problem.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1563249812
ISBN 13 
9781563249815
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
210
Contacto del fabricante
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com

Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24
München
80331
Alemania

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9781563249808: Calcutta Poor: Elegies on a City Above Pretense: Elegies on a City Above Pretense

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1563249804 ISBN 13:  9781563249808
Editorial: Routledge, 1997
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