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For Richer For Poorer: An Oxfam report on western connections with world hunger

01/01/1986

1 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Debt
Finance

Overview

For Richer For Poorer investigates how the debt crisis and economic policies of the world’s wealthier nations are creating mounting poverty in the Third World. Examples from Oxfam’s work illustrate how poor people are coping with the effects of policies decided thousands of miles away.

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Sudan: The roots of famine

01/01/1986

6 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Sudan: The Roots of Famine is one of Oxfam s background briefs on development issues. The briefs are not in-depth studies, but are intended to highlight some of the key areas of concern. They are designed to help journalists, campaigners and the interested public to understand the complex background that lies behind the media headlines.

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Book

Namibia: Apartheid’s forgotten children

01/01/1985

8 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Namibian children grow up in a stark, beautiful land in the southwest of Africa. With abundant mineral deposits, rich fishing grounds off the coast, plenty of good stock-rearing land, and with one of the lowest population densities in Africa, Namibia should be a prosperous country where children can grow up to realise their full potential. […]

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Book

Land for People: Land tenure and the very poor

01/01/1985

1 documents

73 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Whoever owns the land also holds power. In the Third World the poor do not always have their own land. Oxfam, in its support for the poor overseas, increasingly has to face the problems of land tenure, problems which have to be overcome if the poor are really to escape from their poverty.

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Cultivating Hunger: An Oxfam study of food, power and poverty

01/01/1985

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Cultivating Hunger argues the case for change in a system of world food production and distribution which is failing disastrously. It examines the myths that lie behind the horrifying statistics – the myths that mask the real causes of hunger; the myths that may in fact perpetuate the problem.

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Book

Implementing Multiple Drug Therapy for Leprosy

01/01/1984

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The system of multiple drug therapy for leprosy recommended by the World Health Organisation in 1982 is an extremely effective treatment which, if widely introduced and effectively operated, could result in a dramatic reduction of the incidence and severity of leprosy throughout the world. This book, written in the form of extended answers to a […]

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Book

Silver Shackles: Women and development in India

01/01/1984

1 documents

108 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Relegated by Indian culture and traditions to a position of inferiority, women remain shackled by lack of access to education and health care, increasing unemployment and the deficiencies of their legal status. Burdened at home and exploited at work, women are India’s vast “invisible” labour force – yet they have been virtually by-passed by Indian […]

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Selective Feeding Programmes

01/01/1984

1 documents

97 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Originally produced to accompany the Oxfam Feeding Kit, at the time of the large-scale famine in Ethiopia in the 1970s, this book has been expanded into a comprehensive manual for use in treating different degrees of malnutrition in emergency situations. The first part of this book describes the assessment and monitoring of the nutritional needs […]

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Briefing paper

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

29/09/1983

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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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The Poverty of Diplomacy: Kampuchea and the outside world

01/01/1983

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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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