The Self-Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty: by Erica Kohl-Arenas, Oakland, University of California Press, 2016, xix + 252 pp., $29.95, £19.95

The European Legacy 26 (7-8):846-848 (2021)
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In The Self-Help Myth, Erica Kohl-Arenas explores how antipoverty programmes consistently fail to alleviate the suffering and oppression of the poor within California’s Central Valley, a region whi...

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