Europe is a continent of cities with a remarkable history of cultural inspiration, wealth creation, social andpolitical … cities that had housed the “engines of the world” and nowhoused some of the greatest concentrations of poverty. The US …

The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A povertylevel of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimatesof Households Below Average Income are based. There was a smallreduction in poverty … poverty are likely to be small. In order to keep on tracktowards the goal of halving child poverty by 2010, further …

. The lack of low-skilled manualwork in the inner city is linked to poverty, crime, family dissolution and thesocial life of …

examine the effect of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, andhistory, in terms of the initial wealth … distribution, in determining the long-term wealth distributionand the level of per capita income of an economy.[...] …

Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable andnoted feature of Chinese society. The paper … socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is … approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty andinequality are considered.[...] …

In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program,Taipei Family Development Accounts, which …