Routledge International Handbook of Poverty

ISBN-13: 9780367726706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 436 str.

Bent Greve

Opis

Organized into four sections, this Handbook provides knowledge on what poverty is, how it has developed, and what type of policies might be able to succeed in reducing poverty.

Spis treści

1. Poverty: Still an Important Issue  PART 1: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES  2. Absolute Poverty  3. Absolute or Relative? Definitions and the Different Understandings of Poverty  4. Multidimensional Poverty: Whose Poverty Is It?  5. Multidimensional Poverty Across the Life Cycle: The United States as an Empirical Example  6. Preventing Poverty  7. Relative Deprivation and Subjective Social Position  8. The Consequences of Growing Up Poor  9. Social Justice as Parity of Participation  10. Global Poverty: Trends, Measures, and Antidotes  11. The Discourse of Poverty: Structural and Behavioural Approaches in the UK Since 1900  PART 2: POVERTY AROUND THE WORLD AND DEVELOPMENT IN POVERTY  12. Poverty Development in Affluent Welfare States  13. Poverty in Developing Countries, 1990-2016: Some Regional, Temporal, and Income Level Variations  14. What Contributes to a Higher Degree of Voluntarism in China’s Rural Displacement Programs? Poverty Alleviation Resettlement as a Case Study  15. Dynamics of Rural Transformation and Poverty and Inequality in Asia and the Pacific  16. Poverty in Africa  17. Poverty and Social Policy in Latin America: Key Trends since C. 2000  18. Poverty around the World: North America  PART 3: POLICIES TOWARDS POVERTY  19. The Working Poor  20. Poverty in Old Age  21. Poverty and Access to Welfare Benefits  22. Coping with Poverty – Life for People  23. Poverty and Crime  24. Taxes and Duties and Impact on Poverty  25. Social Cash Transfers in the Global South: Individualizing Poverty Policies  26. International Migration and Poverty  27. Neoliberalism and Poverty: An Unbreakable Relationship  28. Poverty and Health Inequality  29. Poverty Reduction among Older People through Pensions: A Comparative Analysis  30. Behavioural Public Policy and Poverty  31. Poverty and Family  PART 4: THE WAY FORWARD – WHAT WILL INFLUENCE POVERTY IN THE YEARS TO COME?  32. Poverty – It Is Still Here

O autorze

Bent Greve is Professor of Welfare State Analysis in the Department of Society and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has published widely on different topics surrounding the welfare state, including technology and the labour market, happiness and social policy, labour market policy, and most recently on populism and the welfare state. He is editor of Social Policy and Administration.