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2024.
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Since 1990, nonprofit Washington Parks & People has tried to reduce poverty and violence in Washington, D.C. neighborhoods by improving parks. At the height of the recession, the organization received a stimulus grant to create a "green" job-training program in communities hardest hit. They had two years to help unemployed people find jobs and care for parks in their neighborhoods.What sounds like a simple goal — putting people back to work by planting...
2) It's Basic
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2023.
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When the Coronavirus Pandemic threw livelihoods into uncertainty and consequently spurred the creation of multiple direct government assistance programs, every American was given first-hand experience with the concept of Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI), an idea that has been proposed in the US for nearly as long as it's been in existence. By this point, several US cities had already begun GBI pilot programs in which they provided {dollar}500 to {dollar}1000...
3) InHospitable
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2021.
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Follows the story of patients and activists as they band together in an effort to fight UPMC, a multi-billion dollar nonprofit hospital behemoth in western Pennsylvania. In its quest for market domination, UPMC was planning to make vital care unaffordable for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable patients. These patients were taxpayers who had been subsidizing this supposedly nonprofit institution whose main mission as a charity was to serve the community....
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"Learn how some of the world's most powerful women are using their growing economic power to create success and meaning in their lives while building a better world. Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In ignited a conversation about women and their careers, and resonated with millions of readers. Fast Forward, by two women leaders with experience and access throughout corporate America and around the world, takes the next step. Through interviews with a network...
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Utina, Florida, is a small, down-at-the-heels southern town. Once enlivened by the trade in Palm Sunday palms and moonshine, Utina hasn't seen economic growth in decades, and no family is more emblematic of the local reality than the Bravos. Deserted by the patriarch years ago, the Bravos are held together in equal measure by love, unspoken blame, and tenuously brokered truces. The story opens on a sweltering July day, as Frank Bravo, dutiful middle...
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He's a fourteen-year-old boy, taken to fight in war. She's his twin sister, desperate to save him.
Patish and Leeta enjoy an idyllic life in their ancient Indian village - until a battle over diminishing water supply threatens their world. While Patish trains as the warrior he'd never planned to be, duty falls on Leeta to make a perilous journey for the wisdom of the mysterious Purple Sage.
When the final command is given and the armies are...
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Moving beyond abstract economic models and superficial descriptions of the market, Beyond the Developmental State analyses the economic, political and ideological interests which underpin current socio-economic processes.
Through this approach, the contributors show the close interrelation between states and markets in both national and international contexts. Drawing on a wide range of case studies and themes, the book exposes the theoretical...
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Dream Zones explores the dreamed of and desired futures that constitute, sustain and disrupt capitalism in contemporary India.
Drawing on five years of research in and around India's Special Economic Zones (SEZs), the book follows the stories of regional politicians, corporate executives, rural farmers, industrial workers and social activists to show how the pursuit of growth, profit and development shapes the politics of industrialisation and...
9) Exit
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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A journey out of the heart of human trafficking. Three women who were looking for a way out of their extreme poverty found themselves at the heart of human trafficking networks. EXIT is not a straight road and many don't make it to the end.
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2022.
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Español
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Chinese mining in Ecuador’s mountains sets the stage for an epic battle between eco-guerrillas and a corrupt government in an intensely dramatic documentary.THIS STOLEN COUNTRY OF MINE follows Paúl Jarrín Mosquera, who leads the indigenous resistance against the exploitation of their land. Meanwhile, China uses the Ecuadorian government to turn the country into one of its new colonies, having made the country dependent on credit through a series...
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2021.
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A powerful man and anonymous man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communities along the Georgian coast and has them excavated to collect them for his private garden. In order to transplant trees of such dimensions, the landscape surrounding them is ripped apart and the people living around them are forced to adapt to the disruption. As the film follows this process, it portrays the...
13) The Welles Raft
Pub. Date
2024.
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In 1942, Orson Welles was in Brazil filming his documentary It's All True about Carnival and the Jangadeiros (Brazillian fishermen). The leader of Jangadeiros, Manuel Jacaré, died during filming. This fact evokes memories of Orson Welles in Brazil – and it changed his life forever.
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2021.
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In 2005, a machine tools factory in Croatia was occupied by its workers. Since then, they have been operating collectively, making it the sole successful case of a worker occupation in post-socialist Europe. Today, as they strive to establish a new model of collective ownership, they face the challenges of contending with the globalized market economy. A decade later, the question arises: can the slogan "Factory to the Workers" be sustained, or is...
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Any student, academic or practitioner wanting to succeed in development studies, radical or mainstream, must understand the World Bank's role and the evolution of its thinking and activities. The Political Economy of Development provides tools for gaining this understanding and applies them across a range of topics.
The research, practice and scholarship of development are always set against the backdrop of the World Bank, whose formidable presence...
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"Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes--economic cycles that veer from boom to bust--from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big and so profound that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system within which entire societies function, will mutate into something wholly...
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Devenez un pro de l'investissement locatif grâce à ce guide complet ! Du choix de la propriété à la gestion des locataires, en passant par l'évaluation de la rentabilité et l'optimisation fiscale, ce livre vous offre toutes les clés pour réussir dans l'immobilier locatif. Apprenez à éviter les erreurs courantes et maximisez vos bénéfices avec une stratégie à long terme. Que vous soyez débutant ou investisseur expérimenté, ce guide...
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"A generation of hope is what we need urgently. Here is a book helping ensure the next one proves precisely that." -Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofuedalism and Another Now "A beautifully powerful call, humbly told, to turn your attention to the greater good." -Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want and Hell Yeah or No - It has become clear: Our current economic system is broken. Growth at all costs is unsustainable. It's easy to get discouraged...
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The Restoration Economy reveals the previously undocumented trillion-dollar global industries that are restoring our natural and manmade environments. Restorative development is rapidly overtaking new development because we are running out of things to develop. Most natural areas are already either farmed or degraded, and cities have built all the way to their borders. However, there is no lack of things to redevelop and restore. Storm Cunningham...
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Ce livre est bien plus qu'un simple guide financier, c'est un manuel complet pour ceux qui aspirent à la prospérité à long terme. Dans cet ouvrage, vous découvrirez les secrets des plus grands magnats de l'histoire, ainsi que des conseils pratiques et des stratégies éprouvées pour créer, gérer et transmettre un patrimoine financier durable.En explorant les principes fondamentaux de la richesse, vous apprendrez à cultiver une mentalité...
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