Title Understanding poverty / Pete Alcock ; consultant editor: Jo Campling

Edition Third edition Published Basingstoke, Hants. : Palgrave Macmillan, [2006] ©2006

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Description xvi, 304 pages ; 24 cm Contents Part I. The context of poverty. 1. What is poverty?; 2. Who is poor?; 3. The causes of poverty; 4. International dimensions -- Part II. Definition and measurement. 5. Definining poverty; 6. Measuring poverty; 7. The dynamics of poverty; 8. Social exclusion -- Part III. Social divisions and poverty. 9. Gender and poverty; 10. Racism and poverty; 11. Age and poverty; 12. Disability and poverty -- Part IV. The policy framework. 13. The politics of poverty; 14. Social security policy; 15. Developing local anti-poverty action; 16. Area-based initiatives; 17. Poverty, inequality and inclusion Notes Previous ed.: 1997 Includes indexes Bibliography Webliography: pages 259-260 Bibliography: pages 261-278 Subject Poverty. Poor -- Great Britain. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056945 United Kingdom -- Economic conditions -- 1964-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007086 United Kingdom -- Economic conditions -- 1979-1997. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007088 United Kingdom -- Economic conditions -- 1945-1964. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007542 United Kingdom -- Economic conditions -- 1997- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003606 Author Campling, Jo. ISBN 9781403940926 (hbk.) 1403940924 (hbk.) 9781403940933 (paperback) 1403940932 (paperback)

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