Poverty and Inequality

Liconsa and the Program of Social Assistance for Milk

Publication Date: September 15, 2004

In 2003, officials in Mexico's Ministry of Social Development were debating whether to eliminate a long-standing program that provided subsidized milk to poor families. In its place, they would expand a new program that gave poor families...

The Challenge of Participation: Drafting Mauritania's PRSP (B)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

In the late 1990s, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, under heavy pressure to find ways to relieve developing countries of large volumes of accumulated public debt, devise a way they believe offers a way to link such debt relief...

The Challenge of Participation: Drafting Mauritania's PRSP (A)

Publication Date: October 01, 2001

In the late 1990s, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, under heavy pressure to find ways to relieve developing countries of large volumes of accumulated public debt, devise a way they believe offers a way to link such debt relief...

Kmart Union in Greensboro Fights for a Contract: Early Days Exhilarating and Frustrating (A)

Publication Date: June 01, 2000

When the employees of a Kmart distribution center in Greensboro, North Carolina vote to unionize, they encounter difficulty in negotiating a contract with their employer, which viewed wages and working conditions as in keeping with regional...

Municipal Decentralization in Buenos Aires (Sequel)

Publication Date: February 01, 1999

As part of its efforts to recover from hyperinflation and an oversized public sector, the government of Argentina specifically the province of Buenos Aires seeks to control costs and improve service in local government. To do so, the provincial...

Municipal Decentralization in Buenos Aires: Creating the Municipality of Hurlingham

Publication Date: February 01, 1999

As part of its efforts to recover from hyperinflation and an oversized public sector, the government of Argentina--specifically the province of Buenos Aires--seeks to control costs and improve service in local government. To do so, the...

Focused Philanthropy: The Steans Family Foundation North Lawndale Initiative

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

The Chicago-based Steans Family Foundation decides, in 1995, to depart from its historic focus on aiding individual, needy Chicago public school students. Frustrated by the persistent perils in neighborhoods in which such beneficiaries of their...

Capitalization: The Politics of Privatization in Bolivia

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

In this case, the president of Bolivia and a team of officials grapple with questions of how to set up a model for privatizing a number of state-owned enterprises. In the 1980s, Bolivia, like most other Latin American countries, embraced a more...

Romani Politics in the Czech Republic

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The fall of Communism in Eastern Europe ushered in a new era of political freedom. At the same time, it opened an old Pandora's box of ethnic tensions and hatreds, suppressed in the ostensibly universalist Marxist regimes. Among the most...

Mikhukhu People of South Africa: A Question of Survival

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This case focuses on an organization established to fight for the housing rights of people living in "informal settlements" in apartheid-era South Africa. In the wake of democratization, the group finds itself under increasing pressure from...

Malcolm X

Publication Date: January 01, 1981

This case traces the life of Malcolm X, a leader of the Black Muslims and a powerful voice for black pride, from his birth as Malcom Little in 1925 to his break with the Muslims in 1964. It shows how his philosophy was shaped by his long...