Understanding Poverty - Alcock, Pete
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Understanding Poverty provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction, introducing the problems of definition, measurement and distribution of poverty and analysing the full range of debates about its causes and its possible solution. The third edition of this important text incorporates recent policy and research developments while maintaining the successful broad approach of earlier editions. In particular coverage of poverty dynamics and anti-poverty has been expanded, with new chapters covering the history of targeted anti-poverty action and current government…mehr

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Understanding Poverty provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction, introducing the problems of definition, measurement and distribution of poverty and analysing the full range of debates about its causes and its possible solution. The third edition of this important text incorporates recent policy and research developments while maintaining the successful broad approach of earlier editions. In particular coverage of poverty dynamics and anti-poverty has been expanded, with new chapters covering the history of targeted anti-poverty action and current government programmes.

Table of contents:
PART I: CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS
What is Poverty?
Who are the Poor?
The Causes of Poverty
Poverty in Europe and Beyond
PART II: DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT
Defining Poverty
Poverty and Social Exclusion
Households and Poverty Dynamics
Measuring Poverty
PART III: SOCIAL DIVISIONS
Gender and Poverty
Racism and Poverty
Ageing and Poverty
Disability and Poverty
PART IV: POLICY FRAMEWORK
The Politics of Poverty
Social Security Policy
The Development of Targeted Anti-Poverty Policies
Area-Based Initiatives
Future Prospects
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Autorenporträt
PETE ALCOCK is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Social Policy in Britain (second edition) and co-editor of both The Blackwell Companion to Social Policy and International Social Policy. He has been Chair of the Social Policy Association and is now Chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Social Policy.