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.
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Poor.
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Economic development.
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Added Author |
Townsend, Peter, 1928-2009.
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Gordon, David.
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Added Title |
Breadline Europe : the measurement of poverty.
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ISBN |
1861343965 |
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1861343957 (pbk.) |
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