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A Different Kind of People: The Poor at Home and Abroad, 1935-1968

Description:
This dissertation demonstrates how a transnational conception of poor people as 'backwards' and culturally distinct emerged from the nexus of intellectuals, activists, and administrators who …
Year:
2009
Contributor:
Jahanbani, Sheyda F.A. (creator)
Buhle, Mari Jo (director)
Campbell, James (reader)
Engerman, David (reader)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
development
modernization
Poverty
Economic development
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

Agricultural productivity growth, rural economic diversity, and economic reforms: India 1970-2000

Description:
A salient theme in D. Gale Johnson’s work is the importance of agricultural development for general prosperity and for economic diversification (e.g., Johnson 2000). Johnson …
Contributor:
Foster, Andrew D., 1961- (creator)
Rosenzweig, Mark R. (creator)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Economics
Agricultural productivity
Economic development
Rural populations
Population
Poverty
Collection:
Open Access Publications at Brown
Full Record

Anonymous (19) oral history interview, 2023 April 11

Description:
The speaker tells their life story through the lens of incarceration. They describe their parents' experiences in jail for crimes of poverty, their mother's time …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Brown University. Mass Incarceration Lab @ CSREA (creator)
Anonymous (19) (interviewee)
Genre:
oral histories (literary genre)
Subject:
Anonymous (19)
Addiction
Criminal justice reform
Domestic violence
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Drug traffic
Education
Emotional trauma
Employment
Family separation
Formerly incarcerated
Heroin
Human rights
Incarcerated persons
Incarcerated women
Intergenerational incarceration
Jails
Law enforcement
Marijuana
Medical neglect
Mistreatment
New England
New Hampshire
Parental incarceration
Poverty
Racism
Rehabilitation
Substance abuse
Universities and colleges
Collection:
Brown University Library
Mass Incarceration Lab collection
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Archila, Ana Maria

Description:
The challenge of being successful from local to national levels. Huge effect of 9/11 on immigrant communities. Ana Maria immigrated from Colombia at the age …
Year:
2009
Contributor:
Archila, Ana Maria (interviewee)
Elmer, Don (interviewer)
Subject:
Civil rights
Columbian
Community organization
Education
Health care
Hispanic Americans
Housing
Identity affiliation
Immigrants -- Civil rights
Individual membership organization
LGBTQ rights
Latinx
Poverty
Urban organization
Women
Young adults
Local ID:
bdr:420351
bdr420351
Collection:
Brown University Library
Community Organizer Archive
Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews
Full Record

Basic Crop Research and Development Programs: Northeast Brazil

Year:
1970
Contributor:
ARDO (Associated name)
Genre:
programs (documents)
Subject:
Science & Technology
Poverty
Agricultural development projects
Agriculture--Research
SUDENE
Brazil--Northeast
Agricultural productivity
Agricultural Development
Agricultural and Rural Development Office
Sorghum
Agriculture--Practices
Local ID:
AGR NE
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
Full Record

Battle, Paul

Description:
Broad background in movement activism (civil rights, anti-war, black nationalism) led to openness to building permanent organizations run by their members. Realistic view of the …
Year:
2009
Contributor:
Battle, Paul (interviewee)
Elmer, Don (interviewer)
Subject:
African Americans
Community organization
Economic development
Geographic affiliation
Housing
Individual membership organization
Institutional membership organization
Men
Neighborhood organizing
Older people
Poverty
Statewide organization
Urban organization
Local ID:
bdr:420354
bdr420354
Collection:
Brown University Library
Community Organizer Archive
Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews
Full Record

Beckett, Jane

Description:
Explanation about the project to gather oral histories from community organizers and characteristics of the 102 interviews gathered during 2007-2010.
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Beckett, Jane (interviewee)
Elmer, Don (interviewer)
Subject:
Community organization
Disability rights
Health care
Poverty
Transportation
Urban organization
Utilities
Local ID:
bdr:837236
bdr837236
Collection:
Brown University Library
Community Organizer Archive
Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews
Full Record

Berlin, Nancy

Description:
Personal experience applying for public aid led her to work in the welfare rights movement. Started working for United Farm Workers; welfare rights movement; VISTA …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Berlin, Nancy (interviewee)
Elmer, Don (interviewer)
Subject:
Coalitions
Community organization
Housing
Identity affiliation
Individual membership organization
Issue affiliation
Labor rights
Middle-aged persons
Poverty
Rural organization
Statewide organization
Urban organization
Voting rights
Welfare
Whites
Women
Local ID:
bdr:420356
bdr420356
Collection:
Brown University Library
Community Organizer Archive
Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews
Full Record

Booth, Heather Tobis

Description:
Being open to the strengths of movement, community-based, single-issue, electoral, and identity-based organizing. Change depends on historical openings, elected leadership that is open, understanding the …
Year:
2009
Contributor:
Booth, Heather (interviewee)
Elmer, Don (interviewer)
Subject:
Civil rights
Coalitions
Community organization
Health care
Identity affiliation
Immigrants -- Civil rights
Individual membership organization
Institutional membership organization
Issue affiliation
Labor rights
National organization
Older people
Poverty
Statewide organization
Utilities
Voting rights
Whites
Women
Local ID:
bdr:420358
bdr420358
Collection:
Brown University Library
Community Organizer Archive
Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews
Full Record

Borgos, Seth

Description:
Big picture conversation about the potential for community organizing to make large scale change and what stands in the way of that; community organizing still …
Year:
2009
Contributor:
Borgos, Seth (interviewee)
Elmer, Don (interviewer)
Subject:
Community organization
Economic development
Geographic affiliation
Housing
Individual membership organization
Men
Middle-aged persons
National organization
Poverty
Statewide organization
Urban organization
Whites
Local ID:
bdr:420359
bdr420359
Collection:
Brown University Library
Community Organizer Archive
Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews
Full Record

Catholic Charity in Perspective: The Social Life of Devotion in Portugal and its Empire (1450 – 1700)

Description:
This article tries to outline the major differences between practices of charity within Europe, either comparing Catholics to Protestants, or different Catholic areas. The point …
Year:
2004
Contributor:
Sá, Isabel dos Guimarães (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Confraternities
Charity
Poverty
Devotion
Christianity > Portugal > 15th century
Christianity > Portugal > 16th century
Christianity > Portugal > 17th century
Catholic Church > Europe
Protestantism > Europe
Misericórdias
Misericórdia de Lisboa (Confraternity)
Misericórdia do Porto (Confraternity)
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Journals@BDR
e-Journal of Portuguese History
Full Record

Cheating the angel-makers: surviving infant abandonment in nineteenth-century Italy

Description:
By the end of the 19th Century, a system existed in Europe by which countless abandoned children and infants were institutionalized. One of the main …
Contributor:
Kertzer, David I. (creator)
White, Michael J. (creator)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Anthropology
Poverty
Demography
Infants > Mortality
Collection:
Open Access Publications at Brown
Full Record

Cohen, Bob

Description:
Community organizing in Rhode Island and West Virginia. Some of the projects including working on clothing grants for welfare recipients and coal mining safety. He …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Cohen, Bob (interviewee)
Elmer, Don (interviewer)
Subject:
Civil rights
Community organization
Labor rights
Poverty
Voting rights
Local ID:
bdr:837238
bdr837238
Collection:
Brown University Library
Community Organizer Archive
Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews
Full Record

Comments on Preliminary Papers Dealing with Agricultural Program Initiatives for the Northeast

Year:
1970
Contributor:
Rodgers, William L. (Author)
Lion, Donor M. (Addressee)
Genre:
reports
Subject:
Poverty
Brazilian migration
SUDENE
USAID
Agriculture, Cooperative
Brazil--Rodovia Transamazônica
Agricultural industries--Marketing
Northeast of Brazil
Agricultural industries--Management
Land titles
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
Full Record

Congressional Reaction to Papal Encyclical

Year:
1968
Contributor:
AmConsul Recife (Addressee)
Amconsul Sao Paulo (Author)
Amconsul Rio De Janerio (Addressee)
Secstate WashDC (Addressee)
Genre:
telegrams
Subject:
Geopolitics
Family planning
Poverty
Aliança Renovadora Nacional
Department Of State
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
Full Record

A contribution to the empirics of economic growth

Description:
This paper examines whether the Solow growth model is consistent with the international variation in the standard of living. It shows that an augmented Solow …
Contributor:
Mankiw, N. Gregory (creator)
Romer, David (creator)
Weil, David N. (creator)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Economic modelling
Economic development
Human capital
Poverty
Education
Collection:
Open Access Publications at Brown
Full Record

Coordination and Prosperity: Poverty Alleviation and Agricultural Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

Description:
Human interactions play a vital role in the economy and society at large. In three dissertation chapters, I investigate how the degree of coordination between …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Poll, Moritz (creator)
Foster, Andrew (Advisor)
Michalopoulos, Stelios (Reader)
Hull, Peter (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Economics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
scale-up
Poverty
Kenya
Sub-Saharan Africa
Cluster Randomized Trials
Coordination
Markets
Quasi Experiment
Poverty Alleviation
Malawi
High-Frequency Data
Collection:
Economics
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

Crime, pauperism, intemperance: report

Description:
  • Printed in three columns divided by double lines within border of type ornaments.
  • Printed area: 37 x 24 cm.
  • Investigatory committee report on statistics of …
Year:
1841
Contributor:
City Temperance Society (Providence, R.I.) (creator)
Subject:
n-us-r
Temperance > Societies, etc
Alcoholism and crime > Rhode Island
Poverty
Prisoners > Rhode Island > Providence
Prisons > Rhode Island > Providence
Rhode Island > Economic conditions > 19th century
Rhode Island > Social conditions > 19th century
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Collection:
Brown University Library
Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition
Full Record

Crime, pauperism, intemperance: report

Description:
  • Printed in three columns divided by double lines within border of type ornaments.
  • Printed area: 37 x 24 cm.
  • Investigatory committee report on statistics of …
Year:
1841
Contributor:
Providence City Temperance Society (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Temperance > Societies, etc
Alcoholism and crime > Rhode Island
Poverty
Prisoners > Rhode Island > Providence
Prisons > Rhode Island > Providence
Rhode Island > Economic conditions > 19th century
Rhode Island > Social conditions > 19th century
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Local ID:
RB1606 1841
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
Full Record

Crime, pauperism, intemperance: report

Description:
  • Printed in three columns divided by double lines within border of type ornaments.
  • Printed area: 37 x 24 cm.
  • Investigatory committee report on statistics of …
Year:
1841
Contributor:
Providence City Temperance Society (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
n-us-ri
Temperance > Societies, etc
Alcoholism and crime > Rhode Island
Poverty
Prisoners > Rhode Island > Providence
Prisons > Rhode Island > Providence
Rhode Island > Economic conditions > 19th century
Rhode Island > Social conditions > 19th century
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Local ID:
RB260 1841
Collection:
Brown University Library
Rider Broadsides
Full Record

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