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Rural
Poverty Report 2001
The Rural Poverty Report 2001 argues that, to be successful, poverty-reduction policies must focus
on rural areas
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What
meets the eye: Images of rural poverty
At the heart of every human experience is the desire to survive and
prosper. To live without fear, hunger or suffering. To imagine how your
life could be better and then have the means yourself to change it. Yet,
every day, 1.2 billion people – one fifth of the world’s inhabitants
– cannot fulfil their most basic needs, let alone attain their dreams
or desires.
This book is about the largest
segment of the world’s poor – the 900 million poor women,
children and men who live in rural environments. These are the subsistence
farmers and herders, the fisherfolk and migrant workers, the artisans
and indigenous peoples whose daily struggles seldom capture world attention.
What meets the eye, a collection of 111 photographs, records the lives
of poor people in rural settings around the world. This unique volume
illustrates that poverty isn’t always what meets the eye. For in
each photograph, in each face you encounter, there are glimpses of determination,
moments of joy – signs that even when there is nothing else, there
is always hope.
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