Self-Help Myth - How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty

Summary

Can philanthropy alleviate inequality? Do antipoverty programs work on the ground? In this book, the author focuses on these issues play out in California's Central Valley, which is one of the wealthiest agricultural production regions in the world and also home to the poorest people in the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Erica Kohl-Arenas, Kohl-Arenas Erica
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2015
• EAN: 9780520283442
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28344-2
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Poverty, Interrupted
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Philanthropy & Charity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Volunteer Work, Poverty & unemployment, Poverty and precarity, Charities, Voluntary Services & Philanthropy, Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy