Poverty and social deprivation in the Mediterranean : trends, policies, and welfare prospects in the new millennium /

In the growth of regional identities worldwide, the Mediterranean Basin is emerging as an entity in its own right. This book, a unique collaboration among social scientists around the entire Mediterranean littoral, covers Southern Europe, Turkey, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Near East. Leading...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Social Science Council
Otros Autores: Petmesidou, Maria (Editor ), Papatheodorou, Christos (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : New York : Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, ©2006.
Colección:CROP international studies in poverty research.
Temas:
2000-2099
Poverty > Mediterranean Region.
Marginality, Social > Mediterranean Region.
Public welfare > Mediterranean Region.
Sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Economic history.
Marginality, Social.
Poverty.
Public welfare.
Social conditions
Social policy.
Mediterranean Region > Social conditions > 21st century.
Mediterranean Region > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Mediterranean Region > Social policy.
Méditerranée, Région de la > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
Mediterranean Region.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: comparing poverty phenomena in the Mediterranean area / Maria Petmesidou and Christos Papatheodorou
  • Poverty profiles and trends. How do southern European countries compare with each other? / Christos Papatheodorou and Maria Petmesidou
  • Poverty and poverty discourses in Italy in comparative perspective / Chiara Saraceno
  • Poverty and anti-poverty policies in Portugal: the experience of the Guaranteed Minimum Income / José Pereirinha
  • Absolute poverty of illegal immigrants in Spain: a growing problem / Ubaldo Martinez Veiga
  • Poverty reduction strategies and well-being in Albania and Former Yugoslavia / Gerry Redmond
  • The poor, excluded and transition losers in the south-eastern European transition economies / Ivo Bićanić and VojmirFraničević
  • Dynamics of poverty in Turkey: gender, rural/urban poverty, social networks and reciprocal survival strategies / Sibel Kalaycioğlu
  • Poverty in Israel: taking a multi-dimensional approach / Jacques Silber and Michael Sorin
  • The making of poverty in Palestine / Jamil Hilal
  • Social stratification obstacles to reducing inequality and alleviating poverty: the case of Lebanon / Sylvia Haladjian-Henriksen
  • Understanding recent trends in poverty and inequality in the Maghreb (with an emphasis on Morocco) / Mina Baliamoune-Lutz
  • Poverty evaluation in Algeria: a logitprobit model applied to a multi-dimensional field survey in the region of Tlemcen / Abderrezak Benhabib, Tahar Ziani, Samir Baha-Eddine Maliki
  • Concluding commentary: poverty in the Mediterranean region
  • applying a human rights strategy / Peter Townsend.

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