Poverty dynamics : issues and examples
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Poverty dynamics : issues and examples
Avebury, c1994
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-276) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Drawing on examples from Britain and the United States, this book conceptualizes poverty as a dynamic process. This results in a reappraisal of the nature and causes of poverty and generates a fresh policy agenda that shifts the object away from poverty relief towards prevention and intervention. The text looks at definitions of poverty, causes of poverty, income maintenance, compensation and redistribution, types of childhood poverty, patterns of single homelessness, components of change and policy developments.
Table of Contents
- The forgotten dimension of time: Taking account of time - issues: definition and measurement of poverty
- the relief of poverty and prevention of dependency
- income maintenance, compensation and redistribution
- targeting and administration of benefits. Part 2 Taking account of time - examples: patterns of childhood poverty in the USA
- patterns of single homelessness
- the effects of closing a hostel
- benefit dynamics - the case of family credit
- family credit - aspects of a changing caseload
- time past and future.
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