{"product_id":"9789819822140","title":"From Alleviation to Empowerment: Ruminations on Poverty, Capitalism, and Communities","description":"\u003cp\u003e*In collaboration with Sixto K Roxas (Maximo T Kalaw Institute for Sustainable Development, Philippines)This book focuses on a community as a grassroots bargaining unit with requisite skills and capacities sufficient to restore some balance with governments and enterprises, specifically relating to resource allocation and land-use. Specifically, it presents a deployable operational platform for communities to represent their contributions and the value of their assets. Three fundamental requirements anchor the platform: (1) a specific boundary of a community defined in terms of its physical habitat and its ecological-economic-social linkages, (2) an underlying ideology synthesizing theories on epistemology, growth, development, evolution, sociobiology, human settlements, and integral thinking, and (3) a supportive community-based valuation system depicting the value of community assets, incorporating ecological dimensions.A compendium of updated papers, essays, and project reports, this book is based principally on a program by economist\/community activist Sixto Roxas, who championed poverty eradication in impoverished communities for nearly 30 years. Readers will see this advocacy and grounded work not only in terms of a fruitful discourse but as an opportunity for an engaged reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Scientific","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48658972934379,"sku":"EB_SS0900_D14-01_SIMS","price":210.37,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9789819822140-1.jpg?v=1781909654","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9789819822140","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}