Poverty and Exclusion in North and South (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Social Policy and Global Poverty Reduction
Redaktion: Dowler, Elizabeth; Mosley, Paul

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Over the past decade there has been an increase in poverty in the industrialised countries of the 'North', while many of the developing countries in the 'South' have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of the North and South.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134450077
• Artikelnr.: 42669596

Autorenporträt

Paul Mosley is professor of economics at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has written several books including Aid and Power, also published by Routledge. Elizabeth Dowler is a registered public health nutritionist and researches social and policy aspects of food and nutrition at Warwick University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Paul Mosley and Elizabeth Dowler2. Prospects for equitable
social provision in a globalising world Bob Deacon3. Globalisation and the
direction of future social policy Arjan de Haan4. Risk and Vulnerability:
the forward-looking role of social protection Robert Holzmann5. Governance
and the common man: embedding social policy in the search for security Geof
Wood6. Economic growth and social capital Paul Whiteley7. Defining the
limits of a discourse: 'social capital' in Africa John Campbell8.
Perspectives on poverty in North and South Fran Bennett9. Globalisation and
home-based workers in North and South Paul Mosley with assistance from Jane
Tate10. Food and poverty: current global challenges? Elizabeth Dowler and
Geoff Tansey11. Microfinance, poverty and social exclusion in North and
South Paul Mosley and Lucy Steel12. Social capital and micro-enterprise
development: microfinance and urban regeneration in Eastern Europe Marek
Markus13. Debt versus equity in urban regeneration Jo Henderson