1st Edition

Routledge International Handbook of Poverty

Edited By Bent Greve Copyright 2020
436 Pages
by Routledge

436 Pages 72 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

436 Pages 72 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and in 2014 it was halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is, to a high degree, the consequence of the rapid economic development in a few countries, especially China, but in many countries around the globe poverty is still at a high level and is... Read more

1. Poverty: Still an Important Issue  PART 1: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES  2. Absolute Poverty  3. Absolute or Relative? Definitions and the Different Understandings of Poverty  4. Multidimensional Poverty: Whose Poverty Is It?  5. Multidimensional Poverty Across the Life Cycle: The United States as an Empirical Example  6. Preventing Poverty  7. Relative Deprivation and Subjective Social Position  8. The Consequences of Growing Up Poor  9. Social Justice as Parity of Participation  10. Global Poverty: Trends, Measures, and Antidotes  11. The Discourse of Poverty: Structural and Behavioural Approaches in the UK Since 1900  PART 2: POVERTY AROUND THE WORLD AND DEVELOPMENT IN POVERTY  12. Poverty Development in Affluent Welfare States  13. Poverty in Developing Countries, 1990-2016: Some Regional, Temporal, and Income Level Variations  14. What Contributes to a Higher Degree of Voluntarism in China’s Rural Displacement Programs? Poverty Alleviation Resettlement as a Case Study  15. Dynamics of Rural Transformation and Poverty and Inequality in Asia and the Pacific  16. Poverty in Africa  17. Poverty and Social Policy in Latin America: Key Trends since C. 2000  18. Poverty around the World: North America  PART 3: POLICIES TOWARDS POVERTY  19. The Working Poor  20. Poverty in Old Age  21. Poverty and Access to Welfare Benefits  22. Coping with Poverty – Life for People  23. Poverty and Crime  24. Taxes and Duties and Impact on Poverty  25. Social Cash Transfers in the Global South: Individualizing Poverty Policies  26. International Migration and Poverty  27. Neoliberalism and Poverty: An Unbreakable Relationship  28. Poverty and Health Inequality  29. Poverty Reduction among Older People through Pensions: A Comparative Analysis  30. Behavioural Public Policy and Poverty  31. Poverty and Family  PART 4: THE WAY FORWARD – WHAT WILL INFLUENCE POVERTY IN THE YEARS TO COME?  32. Poverty – It Is Still Here

Biography

Bent Greve is Professor of Welfare State Analysis in the Department of Society and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has published widely on different topics surrounding the welfare state, including technology and the labour market, happiness and social policy, labour market policy, and most recently on populism and the welfare state. He is editor of Social Policy and Administration.