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Rethinking Poverty : What makes a good society? /

Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence In our society, a wealthy minority flourish, while around one-fifth experience chronic poverty and many people on middle incomes fear for their futures. Social policy has failed to find answers to these problems and there is now a demand for a new na...

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Auteur principal: Knight, Barry, 1947- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence In our society, a wealthy minority flourish, while around one-fifth experience chronic poverty and many people on middle incomes fear for their futures. Social policy has failed to find answers to these problems and there is now a demand for a new narrative to enable us to escape from the crisis in our society. With the aim of ending poverty, this book argues that we need to start with the society we want, rather than framing poverty as a problem to be solved. It calls for abold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing aust.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (184 pages): illustrations.
ISBN:9781447340638
Accès:Open Access