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This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world. It emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and...
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on consumer expenditure (2011-12), health and education (2014) to examine the latest understanding of poverty in China … and India, and how that connects with minorities. Poverty has generally become less acute in both China and India, thanks …
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I. Cross country studies and a North-South comparison in the study of poverty -- 1. Bérenger, Valérie and Bresson …, Florent. Axiomatic and Robust Multidimensional Poverty Measurements in Five Southern Mediterranean Countries -- 2. Fusco … the EU Experience -- II. Assessing poverty -- 3. Chakravarty, Satya and d’Ambrosio, Conchita. A Family of Unit Consistent …
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a new approach to such issues as the 'new' poverty, precariousness, long-term unemployment, social polarization and lack … of citizenship. The book shows how relational and distributional aspects of poverty are interlinked …
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Muslim minorities in China and India form only a small fraction of their respective populations, yet as they principally live in troubled border states, they are of key strategic importance in the war on terror. In this global context, this book explores whether economics is more important than...
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econometric and statistical techniques. The authors address and identify the extent of poverty in Afghanistan over the years, the … spatial patterns and regional imbalances of poverty in Afghanistan, the distinguishing characteristics of the poor in … the poor in development processes and to successfully cope with poverty and its adverse outcomes. This short book will be …
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This book explores the issue of poverty reduction within mainland Southeast Asia with a specific focus on the impact of … success in poverty reduction has come about largely through innovation in the private sector, foreign investment and the move …, to reduce poverty in the region …
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is an urgent need for this type of endeavor: whether the goal is to reduce poverty or to protect the environment, we need … and systematic planning, migration may fail to reduce poverty, and could even aggravate it. The rapid economic growth in …
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This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty … alleviation experience, and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal … logic and core elements of China's poverty alleviation theory, and taking the Chinese experience of poverty alleviation …
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panel data for 2003−2007. The period covered by this book coincides with the unexpected reversal of the poverty trend … observed in 2006 to the present which raised a question of vulnerability to poverty of Mexican households that had emerged from … poverty in the early 2000s under a stable economic condition. The author applies different methodologies in defining …
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