World poverty : new policies to defeat an old enemy /
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Bristol :
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2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Poverty, social exclusion and social polarisation : the need to construct an international welfare state / Peter Townsend
- Is rising income inequality inevitable? : a critique of the 'Transatlantic consensus' / Tony Atkinson
- The international measurement of poverty and anti-poverty policies / David Gordon
- Social policy in the US : workfare and the American low-wage labour market / S.M. Miller and Jeanette E. Markle
- A European definition of poverty : the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the member states of the European Union / Bernd Schulte
- Welfare state solidarity and support : the Czech Republic compared with the Netherlands / Tomáš Sirovátka, Wim van Oorschot and Ladislav Rabušic
- Targeting welfare : on the functions and dysfunctions of means testing in social policy / Wim van Oorschot
- Structural adjustment and mass poverty in Ghana / Kwabena Donkor
- Social funds in sub-Saharan Africa : how effective for poverty reduction? / Nazneen Kanji
- Urban water supply, sanitation and social policy : lessons from Johannesburg, South Africa / Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw and Susan Parnell
- Round pegs and square holes : mismatches between poverty and housing policy in urban India / Sunil Kumar
- Urban poverty in China : incidence and policy responses / Athar Hussain
- 'A new branch can be strengthened by an old branch' : livelihoods and challenges to inter-generational solidarity in South Africa / Jo Beall
- Human rights, transnational corporations and the World Bank / Peter Townsend
- Are we really reducing global poverty? / Jan Vandemoortele
- 1% of 10,000 billion euros / Tony Atkinson
- Conclusion : constructing an anti-poverty strategy / Peter Townsend and David Gordon.