Understanding Poverty - Alcock, P.
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"Understanding Poverty" provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction, introducing the problems of definition, measurement and distribution of poverty and analysing the full range of debates about its causes and its possible solution. The third edition of this important text incorporates recent policy and research developments while maintaining the successful broad approach of earlier editions. In particular coverage of poverty dynamics and anti-poverty has been expanded, with new chapters covering the history of targeted anti-poverty action and current government…mehr

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"Understanding Poverty" provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction, introducing the problems of definition, measurement and distribution of poverty and analysing the full range of debates about its causes and its possible solution. The third edition of this important text incorporates recent policy and research developments while maintaining the successful broad approach of earlier editions. In particular coverage of poverty dynamics and anti-poverty has been expanded, with new chapters covering the history of targeted anti-poverty action and current government programmes.
Pete Alcock provides a comprehensive introduction to the analysis of poverty and social exclusion covering the definition, measurement, distribution and causes of poverty and the policies developed to combat it. The third edition has been rewritten to include recent developments while maintaining the successful broad approach of earlier editions.
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PETE ALCOCK is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Social Policy in Britain (second edition) and co-editor of both The Blackwell Companion to Social Policy and International Social Policy. He has been Chair of the Social Policy Association and is now Chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Social Policy. PETE ALCOCK is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Social Policy in Britain (second edition) and co-editor of both The Blackwell Companion to Social Policy and International Social Policy. He has been Chair of the Social Policy Association and is now Chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Social Policy.