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Rethinking poverty : assets, social exclusion, resilience and human rights in Barbados / Corin Bailey, Jonathan Lashley, Christine Barrow.
Lippincott Library HC79.P6 B322 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, Corin, author.
- Lashley, Jonathan G., author.
- Barrow, Christine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--Research--Barbados.
- Poverty.
- Human rights.
- Poverty--Research.
- Barbados--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Barbados.
- Economic conditions.
- Human rights--Barbados.
- Poverty--Statistical methods.
- Physical Description:
- 218 pages : charts ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jamaica : University of West Indies Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Case study of poverty in Barbados that uses qualitative measures such as unemployment, violations of human rights, increased migration, weakening of family ties, and reduced social and political participation as well as financial resources. The authors argue that these elements combine to reduce the quality of living conditions for large sectors of Caribbean society.
- Contents:
- A local approach to poverty measurement
- Concepts and context
- Social exclusion in Barbados
- Voices of the poor and socially excluded
- Resilience
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789766407322
- 9766407320
- OCLC:
- 1121602078
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