World poverty : new policies to defeat an old enemy /

The study, when published in 2002, received coverage across the globe from Brazil to Greece and attracted the support of the then High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson. Anyone interested in understanding, campaigning or simply debating the issues facing policy makers today will find this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Townsend, Peter, 1928-2009 (Editor ), Gordon, David, 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : The Policy Press, 2002.
Temas:
Poverty > Government policy.
Poor.
Economic development.
Poverty.
Poverty
Pauvreté > Politique gouvernementale.
Pauvres.
Développement économique.
Pauvreté.
economic development.
poverty.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Policy.
Economic development
Poor
Poverty > Government policy
Lutte contre la pauvreté
Pauvre.
Pauvreté
Politique publique.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • The 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
  • A 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 / Tomáš Sirovátka, Wim van Oorschot and Ladislav Rabušic
  • 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
  • 'A 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.

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