Breadline Europe: The Measurement of PovertyGordon, David, Townsend, Peter Policy Press, 27.12.2000 г. - 465 страници Since 1990, the World Bank, most of the other international agencies and an increasing number of governments have committed themselves to the eradication of poverty. But the basis of their work badly needs overhaul and concerted verification. Breadline Europe provides a scientific and international basis for the analysis and reduction of poverty. It demonstrates that there is far more important research into the problem of poverty going on in many countries of Europe than the international agencies and national governments admit or even realise. Knowledge of the major scientific advances in research needs to be spread among other countries within as well as outside Europe. Breadline Europe has been written by a number of leading European poverty researchers and has three main themes: the need for a scientific poverty line: for better definition and measurement of what is the biggest and rapidly growing international social problem; the need for better theories distinguishing between poverty and social exclusion, with the corresponding policies calculated to diminish these problems;the need for better international social policy and for better policy-related analyses of poverty: for more exact analysis of the year-by-year contribution of specific policies to poverty. This is the first book to examine poverty in Europe within the international framework agreed at the 1995 World Summit on Social Development. Breadline Europe provides up-to-date, essential reading for social science undergraduates and postgraduate students. It will also be of considerable interest to policy makers and NGOs with a concern for poverty reduction. |
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Resolving poverty the need for a scientific consensus | 23 |
the implications of the 1995 | 35 |
Measuring absolute and overall poverty | 49 |
a European history | 79 |
seven | 127 |
poverty purpose and closure | 141 |
eight | 165 |
nine | 191 |
eleven Child poverty in comparative perspective | 223 |
twelve Poverty and the poor in Central and Eastern Europe | 251 |
thirteen Poverty in Hungary and in Central and Eastern Europe | 267 |
fourteen Measurement and definitions of poverty in Russia | 307 |
fifteen What is social exclusion? | 357 |
concepts and evidence | 385 |
the wider context for | 407 |
eighteen Conclusion | 441 |
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