Routledge international handbook of poverty / edited by Bent Greve.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greve, Bent, editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Poor.

Economic development--Social aspects.

Economic development.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1. Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"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, especially China, but in many countries around the globe poverty is still high and influencing societies' overall development. It is against this background that this Handbook provides an up to date analysis and overview of the topic from a large variety of theoretical and methodological angles. Organized into four sections, the Handbook provides knowledge on what poverty is, how it has developed, and what type of policies might be able to succeed in reducing poverty. The first section investigates conceptual issues and relates concepts to people's relative position in society and the understanding of justice. The second section shows how poverty has developed. It will combine existing empirical knowledge with regional/national understanding of the issue of poverty. The third section analyses policies and interventions with the aim of reducing or alleviating poverty within a national as well as global context. It will and intends to include a variety of countries and examples. The last section tells us what can be done about poverty, what instruments are available to end poverty as we know it today. This volume will be an invaluable reference book for students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly in sociology, social policy, public policy, development studies, international relations and politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780429603464

0429603460

9780429058103

0429058101

9780429608988

0429608985

OCLC:

1105749863