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The poverty wars : reconnecting research with reality /
Saunders argues that as a nation Australia can afford to eliminate financial poverty. The fact that we don't do so is a matter of choice, not affordability - as the experience of other countries demonstrates. In challenging this idea, this book focuses on how looking at poverty differently can...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Sydney, NSW :
UNSW Press,
2005.
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| Series: | James Bennett Etitle.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 CONTESTING POVERTY; A new war on poverty; A new battleground; Key issues and ideas; More research?; 2 MAPPING THE POVERTY PROFILE; Contesting poverty; Setting broad limits on Australian poverty; Mapping the profile of poverty; The limitations of statistical poverty; The meaning of poverty; 3 NEW CONCEPTS, NEW EVIDENCE; Regaining the initiative; Redefining poverty; Deprivation, capability and exclusion; Poverty as accumulated disadvantage; 4 THE CAUSES OF POVERTY; Cause as description; Structural inequalities; Events, combinations and accumulations.