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Briefing paper

Weather Alert! Evidence of a hidden crisis for the world’s poor

29/09/1983

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15 pages long

Languages: English

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Millions of the world’s poorest people are threatened by freak weather conditions. This year’s unprecedented climatic extremes brought drought to the rich world hitting agriculture in Australia and South Africa particularly hard and substantially reducing the 1983 grain harvest in the USA. England experienced its hottest July on record. In the poor world a […]

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Book

The Poverty of Diplomacy: Kampuchea and the outside world

01/01/1983

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36 pages long

Languages: English

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A survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime said: “It was inconceivable to us that we would all be left to perish. Every time I heard heavy artillery I thought: The UN is coming at last.” It was not the UN, but Vietnamese forces. Since then the Kampucheans have struggled to rebuild their country. For reasons […]

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Book

Against The Grain: The dilemma of project food aid

01/01/1982

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144 pages long

Languages: English

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For years food has been gien to Third World countries to help in their development. But it has made little impact. Too often the food aid tail wags the development dog. Yet the effectiveness of food aid as a tool for development has gone virtually unchallenged.

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Book

The Great Health Robbery

01/01/1981

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59 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Poor health and poverty often go together – in Britain and in other parts of the world. Yemen is no exception. Here people die from diseases that could be prevented – diarrhoea, TB and so on.

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Book

One in Ten: Disability and the very poor

01/01/1981

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48 pages long

Languages: English

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Today, one in ten of the population of the Third World is disabled. The International Year of Disabled People is a good time to look at what causes that disability and what can be done about it. This booklet is designed to do that by increasing an understanding of what ‘ needs to be done […]

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Book

Muck and Brass

01/01/1980

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44 pages long

Languages: English

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While the people of the Third World struggle against a chronic scarcity of resources, the rubbish thrown away by British householders each year amounts to a pile sixty times the size of the Great Pyramid. This report proposes a domestic reclamation strategy for the UK which will create jobs, save imports and make better use […]

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Book

The Poor Man’s Wisdom: Technology and the very poor

01/01/1979

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48 pages long

Languages: English

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Development methods

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One of the major under-used resources in the fight against poverty is local technology – the skills and knowledge that the poor in the Third World already possess, and their ability to select and adapt technologies from outside. Local technology is weakened and sometimes destroyed by the thought-less use of modern techno-logy, and it is […]

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Book

A Picture of Poverty

01/01/1979

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128 pages long

Languages: English

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This is the first of an annual series of Oxfam Reports which will aim to examine some of the fundamental problems associated with development. “A Picture of Poverty” does not claim to provide a blueprint for the alleviation of world poverty. It is merely an attempt to come to grips with some of the issues […]

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Discussion paper

Women in Rural Zaire and Upper Volta: Improving methods of skill acquisition

01/11/1977

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39 pages long

Languages: English

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Much has been written and said about the fuller, more equal and less onerous role which rural women, especially in African countries should play in the context of national socio-economic development and about the policies and programmes to be pursued to bring this about. The starting point of this study is the observations and analysis […]

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Book

Europe and the World Without

01/01/1977

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52 pages long

Languages: English

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How Europe shapes its future for the next 10 or 20 years will determine to an important degree how the developing countries are able to shape theirs. And vice versa. What kind of growth can be devised for the European Community which will meet our own social and economic needs and at the same time […]

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