Attacking extreme poverty : learning from the experience of the International Movement ATD Fourth World /

This report consists of a collection of essays on extreme poverty. The first part of the report deals with what it means to live in extreme poverty, how to reach the very poor, through programs, and interventions, and how to make private, and public institutions more responsive to their aspirations....

• Other Authors: Wodon, Quentin, ed
• Format: Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2001
• Series: World Bank technical paper ; no. 502
• Subjects: POBREZA SEVERA; EXCLUSION SOCIAL; ACCESO A LA EDUCACION; ACCESO A LA SALUD; SERVICIOS DE SALUD; CONDICIONES DE VIDA; ALIVIO DE LA POBREZA; AMERICA LATINA; AFRICA; MITIGACION DE LA POBREZA; POBREZA ABSOLUTA; INDIGENCIA; REDUCCION DE LA POBREZA; TERCER MUNDO

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Abstract
• 1. Attacking extreme poverty: an overview / Quentin Wodon
• Pt. 1. Reaching the poorest
• 2. What does it mean to live in extreme poverty? the story of Doña Matilda / International Movement ATD fourth World
• 3. Reaching the poorest: what does it take? / Huguette Redegeld
• 4. Enabling institutions to reach the poorest / Jona Rosenfeld and Bruno Tardieu
• Pt. 2. Extreme poverty and human rights
• 5. The very poor, living prof of the indivisibility of human rights / Joseph Wresinski
• 6. Extreme poverty and human rights: invisibility four times / Charles Courtney
• 7. Extreme poverty and human rights at the united nations / Leandro Despouy.