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Good Search Terms to use: words or phrase

 * global poverty
 * globalization and economy
 * developing countries and poverty
 * world economy
 * international poverty

New Books
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> Alters, Sandra. //World Poverty//. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',Calibri,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2013. Print.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',Calibri,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Call Number: REF HC79.P6 A48 2013 **

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Babb, Sarah. //Beyond the Development Banks: Washington politics, world poverty, and the wealth of nations//. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',Calibri,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Print.
 * Call Number: HG1975.B33 2009**

Brainard, Lael, Abigail Jones and Nigel Purvis, eds. //Climate Change and Global Poverty: A billion lives in the balance?//. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',Calibri,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2009. Print.
 * Call Number: QC903 .C545 2009**

Gilbert, Geoffrey. //World Poverty: A reference handbook//. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',Calibri,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004. Print.
 * Call Number: HC59.72 .P6 G53 2004**

Smillie, Ian. //Freedom from Want: The remarkable success story of BRAC, the global grassroots organization that's winning the fight against poverty//. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',Calibri,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Sterling: Kumarian Press, 2009. Print.
 * Call Number: HN690.6.Z9C66453 2009**

Boucher, Douglas M., ed. //The Paradox of Plenty: Hunger in a bountiful world.// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',Calibri,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Sterling: Kumarian Press, 2009. Print.
 * Call Number: HD1542 .P37 1999**

Reference Books
Books with a call number beginning in REF are located on the second floor of the library.

//State of the World: A Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society.//
 * Call Number: REF HC59 .S733 2007**

The following books are available on [|Credo Reference]

[|Poverty: An International Glossary] Spicker, Paul, Álvarez Leguizamón, and David Gordon, eds. //Poverty: An International Glossary//. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',Calibri,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Boston: Credo Reference, 2011. Web.

[|The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy] Reinert, Kenneth A. and Ramkishen S. Rajan, eds. //The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy.// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS',Calibri,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">Boston: Credo Reference, 2012. Web.

[|Ebrary]
The library has recently added 20,000 online books from the vendor Ebrary. This is the “community college” collection, of interest to students and faculty at 2-year colleges. All books are simultaneously available to all RCC users.

Delivering Aid Differently Fendler, Wolfgang and Homi Kharas. //Delivering Aid Differently.// Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010. Web.

The Day After Tomorrow: A Handbook on the Future of Economic Policy in the Developing World Canuto,Otaviano and Marcelo Guigale, eds. //The Day After Tomorrow: A Handbook on the future of economic policy in the developing world.// Washington, DC: World Bank Publications, 2010. Web.

[|Just Give Money to the Poor : The Development Revolution from the Global South] Hulme, David, Joseph Hanlon and Armando Barrientos. //Just Give Money to the Poor: The development revolution from the global south.// Sterling: Kumarian Press, 2010. Web.

[|Economic growth, poverty, and household welfare in Vietnam.] Glewwe, Paul, Nisha Agrawal, David Dollar. //Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam.// Washington, DC: World Bank Publications, 2004. Web.

=Periodicals= <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's periodicals section for articles about world poverty.
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Economist //
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New Internationalist //
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Newsweek //
 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">U.S. News & World Report //

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|A World Apart: Global Inequality and its Consequences] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Deconstructing conventional economic notions of production and consumption, the film examines the role of Western corporations in environmental problems—such as deforestation, destructive mining, and land mine infestation in Africa, Asia, and South America. These problems are linked to global economic issues, such as lack of access to capital markets and dependence on foreign aid. (53 minutes)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|What Are We Doing Here? Why Western Aid Hasn't Helped Africa] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wealthy nations have sent vast amounts of monetary, medical, and food assistance to Africa. Yet much of the continent remains mired in poverty, famine, and bloodshed. Challenging viewers to rethink traditional humanitarian approaches, this film follows four young Americans as they experience firsthand the scope and intractability of Africa’s suffering. From Cairo to Cape Town, viewers are taken across war-torn, famine-ridden, and AIDS-ravaged countries in which aid workers, government officials, and ordinary individuals explore the complex issues affecting millions of Africans today. Discussions focus on HIV/AIDS, armed conflict, child sponsorship, U.S. farm policies, and the role of NGOs. (95 minutes)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|A Poverty Free World] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Under ideal circumstances investments in physical capital, human capital, and technology will produce income growth. Geography, history, population, inequality, dual economies, inadequate credit markets, and other factors contribute to the persistence of widespread poverty. (1:24 minute clip)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Slums and Money: A Socioeconomic Analysis] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Patterns of urbanization and poverty are playing an increasingly heavy role in the debate over globalization and market regulation. In a hard-hitting analysis of the issues, this program assembles a wide-ranging set of opinions from scholars and experts—as well as from ordinary individuals around the world who face urban hardships and obstacles to their livelihoods every day. Commentators include economists Jeffrey Sachs and 2008 Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman; Prof. Sakika Fukuda Parr, former editor of the UN Development Program’s Human Development Report; and World Bank President Robert Zoellick. City residents, favela dwellers, and itinerant merchants in India<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, Turkey<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, Nigeria<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, Brazil<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, and China<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> have their say. (45 minutes)

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Web sites = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are many good world poverty web sites on the internet. These web sites have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Cornell University] has a very good guide.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|United Nations Children's Fund] UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.


 * [|Action Against Hunger/ACF International]is a global humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger. Recognized as a leader in the fight against malnutrition, ACF works to save the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger. With 30 years of expertise in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster, and chronic food insecurity, ACF runs life-saving programs in over 40 countries benefitting some five million people each year.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Poverty.com] was created for all people around the world who want to end poverty. It was started in January 2007 by a private individual (John Breen) and has no political, religious, or corporate affiliation.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|USAID]is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. Our work supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting: economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; and, democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The World Bank] is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Our mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results and to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.We are not a bank in the common sense; we are made up of two unique development institutions owned by 187 member countries: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA).

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Research guide prepared on 3/9/11 by Quinn Eureka. Updated on 5/6/14 by Joy Singletary.