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This work brings together lessons from the Moving Out of Poverty study about why & how people move in & out of poverty in conflict-affected contexts. It features cross-country findings on conflict & mobility, as well as case studies of six countries affected by significant violent conflict during the ten-year period covered.
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Billie JD Porter explores how China's recent boom is changing people's lives fast. In bustling Guangzhou, she meets struggling migrant workers from the countryside and some super-rich supercar owners. On China's only tropical island, she sees how tourism is booming and creating new types of jobs-she samples beach life Chinese style, visits the world's largest duty free mall and second largest golf resort. As she celebrates a traditional Chinese New...
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Why and how do some people move out of poverty and stay out while others remain trapped? Presents the experiences of poor people who have made it out of poverty. Draws on research conducted in communities across 15 countries in Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and South Asia. Offers bottom-up perspectives on the processes and local institutions that play key roles in escaping from poverty. The study finds that there are no differences in the initiatives...
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An eye-opening and previously untold story, "Factory Girls" is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. The author demonstrates how "the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America's shores remade our own country a century ago."
11) March
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There are over 250 million migrant workers in China, twice the entire population of Japan. Drawn by the promise of better pay, many find work in factories in coastal provinces like Guangdong. But far away from home and caught up in the throes of the production line, many workers find themselves emotionally cut-off. Set against the epic backdrop of the world's greatest manufacturing nation, we witness the struggles of China's pioneering factory owners...
12) Of mice and men
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An intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and shared dream that make an individual's existence meaningful.
Tragic tale of a simpleminded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him.
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Mexican citizens working in the United States and Canada can face difficult conditions, even when they are employed legally. Filmed over an entire growing season, El Contrato documents the experiences of Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four living in central Mexico, and several of his countrymen who have contracted to work in a sprawling tomato greenhouse in Ontario, Canada. Tensions between workers, growers, and government officials...
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For the women who pick and process the food we eat every day, getting sexually assaulted, and even raped, is sometimes part of the job. FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America's fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families. This investigation is the result of a yearlong reporting effort by veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman, the Investigative...
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Pitfall: When a miner leaves his employer and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny.
Woman in the dunes: An amateur entomologist leaves Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert....
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This work brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. Leading development practitioners and scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science and sociology critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new evidence from their own works.
19) Migrant
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Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, feels like different animals as she follows her family as they travel looking for work.
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