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Looks at bottom up initiatives, where residents and local organizations took charge and took risks to improve their living conditions and to build a new future.

This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe

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Based on more than 30 case studies in eight different countries, this book explores the governance dynamics of local social innovations in the field of poverty