Routledge international handbook of poverty /

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"The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and it was in 2014 halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is to a high degree the consequence of the rapid economic development in a few countries, especia...

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Other Authors: Greve, Bent (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Routledge international handbooks.
Subjects:
Poverty.
Poor.
Economic development > Social aspects.
Social policy.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Poverty: still an important issue / Bent Greve
  • pt. I Conceptual issues
  • 2. Absolute poverty / M. Azhar Hussain
  • 3. Absolute or relative? Definitions and the different understandings of poverty / Ira Malmberg-Heimonen
  • 4. Multidimensional poverty: whose poverty is it? / Robert Walker
  • 5. Multidimensional poverty across the life cycle: the United States as an empirical example / Thomas Bailleul
  • 6. Preventing poverty / Adrian Sinfield
  • 7. Relative deprivation and subjective social position / Anders Ejmæs
  • 8. The consequences of growing up poor / Julie Vinck
  • 9. Social justice as parity of participation / Griet Roets
  • pt. II Poverty around the world and development in poverty
  • 10. Global poverty: trends, measures, and antidotes / Philip N. Jefferson
  • 11. The discourse of poverty: structural and behavioural approaches in the UK since 1900 / John Welshman
  • 12. Poverty development in affluent welfare states / Kate Summers
  • Note continued: 13. Poverty in developing countries, 1990-2016: some regional, temporal, and income level variations / Udaya R. Wagle
  • 14. What contributes to a higher degree of voluntarism in China's rural displacement programmes? Poverty Alleviation Resettlement as a case study / Mark Wang
  • 15. Dynamics of rural transformation and poverty and inequality in Asia and the Pacific / Fabrizio Bresciani
  • 16. Poverty in Africa / Ewout Frankema
  • 17. Poverty and social policy in Latin America: key trends since c.2000 / Roxana Maurizio
  • 18. Poverty around the world: North America / Emily W. Kane
  • pt. III Policies toward poverty
  • 19. The working poor / Ive Marx
  • 20. Poverty in old age / Reuse Nieuwenhuis
  • 21. Poverty and access to welfare benefits / Caroline Dewilde
  • 22. Coping with poverty in everyday life / Cltona Rooney
  • 23. Poverty and crime / David Denney
  • 24. Taxes and duties and their impact on poverty / Bent Greve
  • Note continued: 25. Social cash transfers in the global South: individualizing poverty policies / Lutz Leisering
  • 26. International migration and poverty / Meltem Yilmaz Sener
  • 27. Neoliberalism and poverty: an unbreakable relationship / Guy Feldman
  • 28. Poverty and health inequality / Mel Bartley
  • 29. Poverty reduction among older people through pensions: a comparative analysis / Jinxian Wang
  • 30. Behavioural public policy and poverty / Katherine Curchin
  • 31. Poverty and family / Mary Daly
  • pt. IV The way forward: what will influence poverty in the years to come?
  • 32. Poverty: it is still here / Bent Greue.

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