Poverty on the doorstep  

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Davies, Sharon

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 335 no. 7629 (Nov. 2007), page 1062.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2007.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Why do people ignore poverty on their doorstep?1 They don't, says Peter West. "Many people help, for example, through reading schemes in schools and by working in many different community groups. In addition, many British people give money to charities to help improve the social conditions of poor people."2 It is not surprising that rich Britons concentrate their charitable efforts on poverty in the developing world, adds Rachel Walpole. "It is not a matter of whether or not our fellow Britons are poor through their own choices; it is just that in worldwide terms, they are rich." But choice formed the main thread of the responses.2 Our choices define and divide us, says Alison Munns, who lists as her competing interests "inner ‘new town' GP, socialist, mother, observer of the genetic inheritance of incapacity benefit (families where no adult has worked in two generations), sponsor of an African child, and . . .

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