Introduction : structure vs. agency and the poor urban experience -- The economics of the poor urban experience -- Space usage and cost differentials in Gary, Indiana : counting the costs -- Differential goods and services to feed a family : who pays the costs? -- Differential goods and services...

Introduction / Zenebe B. Uraguchi and Essam Yassin Mohammed -- From access to progress : setting our sights on a worthier goal / Leah Wardle -- The bangladesh experience on financial inclusion : a market systems review / Rubaiyath Sarwar and Ashraful Alam -- Financial inclusion : understanding...

Spatial disparities in human development : an overview of the Asian evidence / Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables and Guanghua Wan -- Methodological issues -- Poverty mapping with aggregate census data : what is the loss in precision? / Nicholas Minot and Bob Baulch -- A decomposition analysis of...

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Eleanor Roosevelt and the universal declaration of human rights / Jo E. Butterfield and Blanche Wiesen Cook -- Daisy Bates and the NAACP / Bridget Gurtler -- Wangari Maathai and the Kenyan environmental and democratic movements / Rosemary Ndubuizu and...

"The provision of state funded and democratically accountable care services represents one of the most potentially transformative advances in gendered social relations and equality for women by 'defamilizing' care and providing paid work. But the cost of providing these services, which women...