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From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World    The Urgency of Now Summaries Background Papers Case Studies

Contents

List of acronyms (PDF 38KB)
List of NGOs, Civil Society Organisations, and Networks list (32 KB)
Acknowledgements (PDF 26KB)

Foreword - Amartya Sen (PDF 51KB)

Part 1: Introduction (PDF 193KB)
The unequal world

Part 2: Power and Politics (PDF 348KB)
The political roots of development • I have rights, therefore I am • I believe, therefore I am • I read, therefore I am • I surf, therefore I am • We organise, therefore we are • I own, therefore I am • I vote, therefore I am • I steal, therefore I am • I rule, therefore I am • From poverty to power

Case Studies
How change happens: A revolution for Bolivia’s Chiquitano people (PDF 59KB)
How change happens: Winning women’s rights in Morocco (PDF 59KB)

Part 3: Poverty and Wealth (PDF 384KB)
An economics for the 21st century • Living off the land • The changing world of work • Private sector, public interest • Going for growth • Sustainable markets

Case Studies 
How change happens: The fishing communities of Tikamgarh (PDF 48KB)
How change happens: African success stories: Botswana and Mauritius (PDF 39KB)

Part 4: Risk and Vulnerability (PDF 378KB)
Living with risk  • Social protection • Finance and vulnerability • Hunger and famine • HIV, AIDS, and other health risks • The risk of natural disaster • Climate change • Living on the edge: Africa’s pastoralists • Violence and conflict • Shocks and change

Case Studies 
How change happens: India’s campaign for a National Rural Employment Guarantee (PDF 37KB)
How change happens: South Africa’s Treatment Action Campaign (PDF 36KB)

Part 5: The International System (PDF 510KB)
Who rules the world? • The international financial system • The international trading system • The international aid system • The international system for humanitarian relief and peace • Climate change • Global governance in the twenty-first century

Case Studies
How change happens: The 2005 Gleneagles Agreements (PDF 49KB)
How change happens: Landmines, an arms-control success
story (PDF 49KB)

Part 6: Conclusion (PDF 173KB)
A new deal for a new century

Appendix: How Change Happens (PDF 141KB)
Notes (PDF 148KB)
Bibliography (PDF 140KB)
Background papers and case studies (PDF 49KB)
Glossary (PDF 65KB)
Index (PDF 107KB)

Whole book (2.51 MB)

Also available

The urgency of now
A small book about the madness of inequality and poverty: how they're wrecking people's lives and why doing something about them will make things better for us all 

This little book sets out some of the biggest challenges facing the world today and shows you how to use the power you have in the fight for positive change. It invites you to become part of a movement of people who believe that inequality can and should be challenged. Also available in French.

Summaries

• From Poverty to Power six page summary in English (PDF 316KB), Spanish (PDF 312KB), French (PDF 328KB), and Portuguese (PDF 312KB). 

Background Papers

• Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Technology, and Economic Growth
• Equality, Inequality, and Equity: where do these fit in the poverty agenda? 
• Feminist Economics
• Financial Markets 
• Gambling Everything for More: the Earth that development built 
• Global Governance 
• Health Risks 
• How and why has multiparty democracy spread over the past 100 years, and what difference has it made to the lives of the poor? 
• How title deeds make sex safer: women's property rights in an era of HIV 
• Insecurity in an Unequal World 
• International Finance: Aid and Middle-Income Countries 
• The Logic of Migration 
• Notes on Inequality and Poverty in Brazil: Current Situation and Challenges. Also available in Portuguese.
• Notes on Poverty and Inequality 
• The Private Sector and Poverty Reduction 
• Private Sector Microfinance  

 Case Studies

• Adva Center (Israel) 
• Agricultural reforms and rural poverty: the case of the peanut industry in Senegal. Also available in French.  
• Albania: development of agricultural cooperatives
• All Ukraine Network of People Living with HIV (PLWH)
• Centre for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS) (Egypt)
• The challenge of eliminating racism in Brazil: the new institutional framework for fighting racial inequality. Also available in Portuguese.  
• CLADEM and the Inter-American Convention on Sexual and Reproductive Rights
• From Moratorium to a Convention on small arms: a change in politics and practices for the 15 member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Also available in French.  
• Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA)
• Honduras: analysis of the impact of the Collective of Honduran Women (CODEMUH) on workers' rights and occupational health, 2002 to 2005. Also available in Spanish.
• How change happens in the private sector
• India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: A Case Study for How Change Happens
• Indigenous People's Education: Mindanao, the Philippines
• Israel: advocacy on employment issues for Arab women
• Local Resources for Development, the experience of Somaliland's General Assistance & Volunteer Organization (GAVO)
• Market access for indigenous women producers in Guatemala. Also available in Spanish.  
• Oxfam Hong Kong's advocacy work on relocation of rural schools in China
• Papua New Guinea (PNG): Land Rights
• Reflections on Community Based Coastal Resources Management (CB-CRM) in the Philippines and South-East Asia
• The Road to Self-Reliance - ABCD
• Roma Organisations: capacity building
• Russia: economic marginalisation
• Social participation as a democracy-consolidating process in Brazil. Also available in Portuguese.
• Solomon Islands & Forestry  
• Territories and citizenship: the revolution of the Chiquitanos. Also available in Spanish.
• A tool against climate change...and hurricanes. Also available in Spanish. 
• What has made Vietnam a poverty reduction success story? 
• Yemen: advocacy on violence against women
• Yogyakarta Earthquake Community Recovery Grants supporting Gotong Royong  

 
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