From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States can Change the World [Audiobook] download free by Duncan Green

From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States can Change the World Audiobook download free by Duncan Green
  • Listen audiobook: From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States can Change the World
  • Author: Duncan Green
  • Release date: 2008/6/24
  • Publisher: OXFAM PUBLISHING
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
  • ISBN: 9780855985936
  • Rating: 7.11 of 10
  • Votes: 613
  • Review by: Jocelyn Koonce
  • Review rating: 9.35 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/22
  • Duration: 6H55M48S in 256 kbps (108.8 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-29
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: OPUS, WAV, AAC, MPEG4, AIFF, WMA, MP3, FLAC (compression ZIP, TAR.LZO, ARC, CAB, RAR, TAR.XZ, CPIO)
  • Total pages original book: 544
  • Includes a PDF summary of 63 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 49M57S (12.6 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: The twenty-first century will be defined by the fight against the scourges of poverty, inequality, and the threat of environmental collapse-as the fight against slavery or for universal suffrage defined earlier eras. From Poverty to Power argues that to break the cycle of poverty and inequality and to give poor people power over their own destinies a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets is required. The two driving forces behind such a transformation are active citizens and effective states. Why active citizenship? Because people living in poverty must have a voice in deciding their own destiny, fighting for rights and justice in their own society, and holding states and the private sector to account.Why effective states? Because history shows that no country has prospered without a state structure than can actively manage the development process. There is now an added urgency beyond the moral case for tackling poverty and inequality, we need to build a secure, fair, and sustainable world before climate change makes it impossible. This book argues that there is still time, provided leaders, organizations, and individuals act. Starting today...
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Development Studies, Human Rights, Development Economics, Poverty & Unemployment, Political Structure & Processes
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 36.26 USD
  • Dimensions: 156x234x31mm
  • Weight: 910g
  • Printed by: Oxfam Professional
  • Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom

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