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Title World poverty : new policies to defeat an old enemy / edited by Peter Townsend and David Gordon.

Imprint Bristol : Policy Press, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  339.46 W893 2002    ---  Available
Description xxiv, 454 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note "This book builds on a companion volume ... Breadline Europe: the measurement of poverty"--P. ix.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Poverty, social exclusion and social polarisation : the need to construct an international welfare state / Peter Townsend -- Is rising income inequality inevitable? : a critique of the 'Transatlantic consensus' / Tony Atkinson -- International measurement of poverty and anti-poverty policies / David Gordon -- Social policy in the US : workfare and the American low-wage labour market / S. M. Miller and Jeanette E. Markle -- European definition of poverty : the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the member states of the European Union / Bernd Schulte -- Welfare state solidarity and support : the Czech Republic compared with the Netherlands / Tomas Sirovatka, Wim van Oorschot and Ladislav Rabusic -- Targeting welfare : on the functions and dysfunctions of means testing in social policy / Wim van Oorschot -- Structural adjustment and mass poverty in Ghana / Kwabena Donkor -- Social funds in sub-Saharan Africa : how effective for poverty reduction? / Nazneen Kanji -- Urban water supply, sanitation and social policy : lessons from Johannesburg, South Africa / Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw and Susan Parnell -- Round pegs and square holes : mismatches between poverty and housing policy in urban India / Sunil Kumar -- Urban poverty in China : incidence and policy responses / Athar Hussain -- 'New branch can be strengthened by an old branch' : livelihoods and challenges to inter-generational solidarity in South Africa / Jo Beall -- Human rights, transnational corporations and the World Bank / Peter Townsend -- Are we really reducing global poverty? / Jan Vandemoortele -- 1% of 10,000 billion euros / Tony Atkinson -- Conclusion : constructing an anti-poverty strategy / Peter Townsend and David Gordon.
Subject Poverty -- Government policy.
Poor.
Economic development.
Added Author Townsend, Peter, 1928-2009.
Gordon, David.
Added Title Breadline Europe : the measurement of poverty.
ISBN 1861343965
1861343957 (pbk.)

 
    
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