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Members of the list may be interested to know that The Policy Press has
just published a major new study of world poverty, edited
by Peter Townsend and David Gordon:
WORLD POVERTY
NEW POLICIES TO DEFEAT AN OLD ENEMY
Edited by Peter Townsend, London School of Economics and Political
Science and David Gordon, Townsend Centre for International Poverty
Research, University of Bristol, UK
"This publication will make a valuable contribution to the integration
of human rights values into world poverty reduction strategies." Mary
Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
World poverty offers fresh insights into how to tackle poverty
worldwide. With contributions from leading scholars in the field both
internationally and in the UK, the book asks whether existing
international and national policies are likely to succeed in reducing
poverty across the world. It concludes that they are not and that a
radically different international strategy is needed. A Manifesto for
international action against poverty is presented.
Contents: Part I: International anti-poverty policy: the problems of
the Washington Consensus: Poverty, social exclusion and social
polarisation: the need to construct an international welfare state -
Peter Townsend; Is rising income inequality inevitable? A critique of
the 'Transatlantic Consensus' - Tony Atkinson; The international
measurement of poverty and anti-poverty policies - David Gordon Part
II: Anti-poverty policies in rich countries: Social policy in the US:
workfare and the American low-wage labour market - S.M. Miller and
Jeanette E. Markle; A European definition of poverty: the fight against
poverty and social exclusion in the member states of the European Union
- Bernd Schulte; Welfare state solidarity and support: the Czech
Republic compared with the Netherlands - Tomá<LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON> Sirovátka, Wim van
Oorschot and Ladislav Rabu<LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON>ic; Targeting welfare: on the functions and
dysfunctions of means testing in social policy - Wim van Oorschot; Part
III: Anti-poverty policies in poor countries: Structural adjustment and
mass poverty in Ghana - Kwabena Donkor; Social funds in sub-Saharan
Africa: how effective for poverty reduction? - Nazneen Kanji; Urban
water supply, sanitation and social policy: lessons from Johannesburg,
South Africa - Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw and Susan Parnell; Round pegs
and square holes: mismatches between poverty and housing policy in
urban India - Sunil Kumar; Urban poverty in China: incidence and policy
responses - Athar Hussain; 'A new branch can be strengthened by an old
branch': livelihoods and challenges to inter-generational solidarity in
South Africa - Jo Beall; Part IV: Future anti-poverty policies:
national and international: Human rights, transnational corporations
and the World Bank - Peter Townsend; Are we really reducing global
poverty? - Jan Vandemoortele; 1% of E10,000 billion - Tony Atkinson;
Conclusion: constructing an anti-poverty strategy - Peter Townsend and
David Gordon. Appendix A: Manifesto: International action to defeat
poverty; Appendix B: Index of material and social deprivation: national
(UK) and cross-national. Index.
Paperback £25.00 ISBN 1 86134 395 7
Hardback £55.00 ISBN 1 86134 396 5
480 pages September 2002
Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion series
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