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Research into minimum income standards and reference budgets around the world is compared in this illuminating collection from leading academics in the field. From countries with long established research traditions to places where it is relatively new, contributors set out the different aims and objectives of investigations into the minimum needs and requirements of populations, and the historical contexts, theoretical frameworks and methodological issues that lie behind each approach. For policymakers, practitioners and social policy and poverty academics, this essential review of...

Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth, together with internationally renowned contributors, illustrate how the merging of `social investment' and `inclusive growth and development' agendas, together with the environmental imperative of `sustainability', is forging an important new social policy framework and shaping a new global development agenda.