The EU?s Lisbon strategy, launched in 2000, included a social aspect, which encouraged the coordination of national policies to fight against social exclusion and poverty, by means of benchmarking. Through the sociological study of quantification activities, which give form to this management...

Using unique village census data collected in 2003 and 2008 in Senegal, we assess the impact of a major World Bank-funded Community Driven Development (CDD) program on membership and assortative matching in community-based organizations (CBOs). We implement both standard discrete choice and...

Romania adopts different specific measures to help citizens in solving their social problems and range from emergency aid programs, to safety net and social protection programs, to social equity schemes, to empowerment programs. In this paper we analyze the instrumentation of social marketing in...

This paper extends the recent literature on static multidimensional deprivation to propose dynamic deprivation measures that incorporate both the persistence and duration of deprivation across multiple dimensions. The paper then illustrates the usefulness of the extension by applying it to...

This paper aims to clarify the research agenda and to tease out the policy implications of 'area effects' for British housing policy, particularly with respect to policies for the regeneration of deprived housing areas. After a review of the growing interest in area effects in current policy,...

This paper reviews the evolution of homelessness policy and practice in Scotland since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. It uses, as its reference point, simultaneous developments in England. It critically examines the practicability of flagship Scottish government policy to...

Many western European housing policies have tried to increase the residential mix of advantaged and disadvantaged groups. Unfortunately, policymakers have given little consideration to how these groups will interact as neighbours. There are numerous theoretically grounded mechanisms by which the...

This paper uses data from the 2000-2008 waves of the German Socio-economic Panel dataset (GSOEP) to provide first estimates of the impact that deprivation in various life domains has on individual well-being. Using a deprivation index proposed by Bossert et al. (2007) and a random effects model...

Inequalities in livelihood among socio-economic groups are caused by disparities in job availability, type and sector of employment and earnings there from, and transcend the boundaries of current generation through their impact on capability formation. This paper explores issues of occupational...