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The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond - Global Development after 2015 (Hardcover): Rorden Wilkinson, David Hulme The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond - Global Development after 2015 (Hardcover)
Rorden Wilkinson, David Hulme
R3,926 Discovery Miles 39 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have contributed to reductions in poverty and improvements in the human condition in many parts of the world since their "invention" in 2000 and 2001. It nonetheless remains the case that today, as on all the previous days of the twenty-first century, almost one billion people will go hungry. Debates about whether the MDGs have made a positive contribution to poverty eradication and/or whether they have achieved as much as they should have done are becoming more frequent as 2015 and the "end of the MDGs" approaches. This book highlights that active debate about what the MDGs have achieved and what that means for the crafting of a post-2015 international framework for action, must become a priority. The work begins by examining the global context of the goals from a variety of perspectives, and moves on to focus on the region that continues to be the most impoverished and which looks likely to fall short of meeting many of the MDGs: Africa. Presenting both a broad overview of the issues and drawing together prestigious scholars and practitioners from a variety of fields, this work provides a significant contribution to debates surrounding both global poverty and the success and future of the MDGs.

The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond - Global Development after 2015 (Paperback, New): Rorden Wilkinson, David Hulme The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond - Global Development after 2015 (Paperback, New)
Rorden Wilkinson, David Hulme
R1,627 Discovery Miles 16 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have contributed to reductions in poverty and improvements in the human condition in many parts of the world since their "invention" in 2000 and 2001. It nonetheless remains the case that today, as on all the previous days of the twenty-first century, almost one billion people will go hungry. Debates about whether the MDGs have made a positive contribution to poverty eradication and/or whether they have achieved as much as they should have done are becoming more frequent as 2015 and the "end of the MDGs" approaches. This book highlights that active debate about what the MDGs have achieved and what that means for the crafting of a post-2015 international framework for action, must become a priority. The work begins by examining the global context of the goals from a variety of perspectives, and moves on to focus on the region that continues to be the most impoverished and which looks likely to fall short of meeting many of the MDGs: Africa. Presenting both a broad overview of the issues and drawing together prestigious scholars and practitioners from a variety of fields, this work provides a significant contribution to debates surrounding both global poverty and the success and future of the MDGs.

Civil Society and Global Poverty - Hegemony, Inclusivity, Legitimacy (Hardcover): Clive Gabay Civil Society and Global Poverty - Hegemony, Inclusivity, Legitimacy (Hardcover)
Clive Gabay
R4,206 Discovery Miles 42 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is world s largest civil society movement fighting against poverty and inequality, incorporating over 100 affiliated country-level coalitions. It has become a significant global actor and its annual days of mobilisation now attract over 175 million people around the world.

This book seeks to explore GCAP s power and its embodiment of emancipatory change. It develops a framework that assesses its external power as an actor by exploring how power works in it, and the relationship between the two. Gabay demonstrates that GCAP, and actors like it, may transcend some of the obstructions they face in navigating and proposing alternatives to dominant codes and practices of neo-liberal globalisation. Thematically, the book explores GCAP s constitutive powers along three axes: hegemony, inclusion and legitimacy. It draws on a wide range of social and political theory, including Liberalism, Anarchism and postcolonial theory and featuring case studies on Malawi and India.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, international development, global governance, social movements and civil society.

Working for Women? - Gendered Work and Welfare Policies in Twentieth-Century Britain (Hardcover): Celia Briar Working for Women? - Gendered Work and Welfare Policies in Twentieth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
Celia Briar
R3,040 Discovery Miles 30 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1997 Working for Women? examines the ways in which women's patterns of paid and unpaid work have been mediated by the policies of governments throughout the 20th century. It looks at the state in defining what is women's work and men's work, and at equal pay and opportunities policies. This book will appeal to academics of sociology, gender and women's studies.

Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South - Poverty, Segregation and Social Networks in Sao Paulo (Hardcover, New Ed):... Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South - Poverty, Segregation and Social Networks in Sao Paulo (Hardcover, New Ed)
Eduardo Cesar Leao Marques
R4,207 Discovery Miles 42 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Contending that everyday sociability and social networks are central elements to an understanding of urban poverty, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South draws on detailed research conducted in SAGBPo Paulo in an examination of the social networks of individuals who identify as poor. The book uses a multi-methods approach not only to test the importance of networks, but also to disentangle the effects of networks and segregation and to specify the relational and spatial mechanisms associated with the production of poverty. It thus explores the different types of network that exist amongst the metropolitan poor, the conditions that shape and influence them, their consequences for the production of poverty and the mechanisms through which networks influence daily living conditions. A rigorous examination of poverty in a contemporary megacity, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and geographers with interests in urban studies, poverty and segregation and social networks.

The Constitution of Poverty (Routledge Revivals) - Towards a genealogy of liberal governance (Paperback): Mitchell Dean The Constitution of Poverty (Routledge Revivals) - Towards a genealogy of liberal governance (Paperback)
Mitchell Dean
R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Firts published in 1991, this book looks at how capitalism has affected the organization of the poor. It also explores what the links are between notions of poverty and notions personal responsibility, philanthropy, morality and state forms. An intruiging work for anyone interested in the foundations and long-term progression of the welfare state.

Housing the Homeless (Paperback): Jon Erickson, Charles Wilhelm Housing the Homeless (Paperback)
Jon Erickson, Charles Wilhelm
R1,390 Discovery Miles 13 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Homelessness has become a lasting issue of vital social concern. As the number of the homeless has grown, the complexity of the issue has become increasingly clear to researchers and private and public service providers. The plight of the homeless raises many ethical, anthropological, political, sociological, and public health questions. The most serious and perplexing of these questions is what steps private, charitable, and public organizations can take to alleviate and eventually solve the problem.

The concept of homelessness is difficult to define and measure. Generally, persons are thought to be homeless if they have no permanent residence and seek security, rest, and protection from the elements. The homeless typically live in areas that are not designed to be shelters (e.g., parks, bus terminals, under bridges, in cars), occupy structures without permission (e.g., squatters), or are provided emergency shelter by a public or private agency. Some definitions of homelessness include persons living on a short-term basis in single-room-occupancy hotels or motels, or temporarily residing in social or health-service facilities without a permanent address.

Housing the Homeless is a collection of case studies that bring together a variety of perspectives to help develop a clear understanding of the homelessness problem. The editors include information on the background and politics of the problem and descriptions of the current homeless population. The book concludes with a resource section, which highlights governmental policies and programs established to deal with the problem of homelessness.

Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand - More Harm than Good? (Hardcover): Greg Marston, Louise Humpage,... Compulsory Income Management in Australia and New Zealand - More Harm than Good? (Hardcover)
Greg Marston, Louise Humpage, Michelle Peterie, Philip Mendes, Shelley Bielefeld, …
R2,236 Discovery Miles 22 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

More than a decade on from their conception, this book reflects on the consequences of income management policies in Australia and New Zealand. Drawing on a three-year study, it explores the lived experience of those for whom core welfare benefits and services are dependent on government conceptions of 'responsible' behaviour. It analyses whether officially claimed positive intentions and benefits of the schemes are outweighed by negative impacts that deepen the poverty and stigma of marginalised and disadvantaged groups. This novel study considers the future of this form of welfare conditionality and addresses wider questions of fairness and social justice.

The Economics of Poverty and Inequality (Hardcover): Frank A. Cowell The Economics of Poverty and Inequality (Hardcover)
Frank A. Cowell
R17,942 Discovery Miles 179 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This major two-volume collection focuses on the economics of distributional equity and the way general criteria for comparisons of income-distribution can be used to inform the analysis of inequality and poverty. The issues addressed include: * the nature of general ranking rules for comparing economic states based on simple ethical principles; * the close relationship between the analysis of poverty and that of inequality or social welfare; * the structure and properties of inequality and poverty indices. In addition to covering theoretical and empirical questions, the development of the subject is set in historical context. The extensive new introduction by the editor explains the relationship between the various component topics. These insightful volumes will be an essential source of reference for students, researchers and practitioners.

Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap - Overcoming Deprivation in the Inner City (Hardcover): Paul Mosley, Pamela Lenton Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap - Overcoming Deprivation in the Inner City (Hardcover)
Paul Mosley, Pamela Lenton
R4,358 Discovery Miles 43 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The persistence of poverty hurts us all, and attacking poverty is a major policy objective everywhere. In Britain, the main political parties have an anti-poverty mandate and in particular an agreed commitment to eliminate child poverty by 2020, but there is controversy over how this should be done. This book addresses one of the main causes of poverty, financial exclusion - the inability to access finance from the high-street banks. People on low or irregular incomes typically have to resort to loan sharks, 'doorstep lenders' and other informal credit sources, a predicament which makes escape from the poverty trap doubly difficult. Over the last fifteen years, a strategy of breaking down the poverty trap has been implemented, known in the UK as community development financial institutions (CDFIs), typically non-profit lending institutions focussed on the financially excluded, and seeking to learn from the achievements of microfinance around the world. Focussing on the period 2007-09, during which the UK went into a global recession, this book investigates how CDFIs work and how well they have helped low-income people and businesses to weather that recession. Based on a study of eight CDFIs in four UK cities, we ask: what ideas for overcoming financial exclusion have worked well, and which have worked badly? What can we learn from the experience of these CDFIs which can help reduce poverty in this country and globally? We assess the impact of CDFIs using a range of indicators (including income, assets, education, health) and ask what changes in policy by both CDFIs and government agencies (for example, benefits agencies) might be able to increase impact. Some of the key lessons are: CDFIs need to work with appropriate partners to build up savings capacity in their clients; the community environment is vital in determining who escapes from the poverty trap; and CDFIs can never function properly unless they learn how to control their overdue debts. This book will be vital reading for those concerned with social policy, microfinance and anti-poverty policies in industrialised countries and around the world.

Beyond the Resources of Poverty - Gecekondu Living in the Turkish Capital (Hardcover, New Ed): Sebnem Eroglu Beyond the Resources of Poverty - Gecekondu Living in the Turkish Capital (Hardcover, New Ed)
Sebnem Eroglu
R1,855 Discovery Miles 18 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This groundbreaking volume researches the lives of gecekondu settlers in the capital city of Turkey in order to understand how households cope with poverty and why some households are more successful than others in reducing their deprivation. It takes a critical stance towards existing conceptions such as household survival, livelihood and coping strategy and develops an alternative model based on four types of household response to poverty: income generation, income allocation, consumption and investment. In explaining household responses and their outcomes for poverty, the book demonstrates the role of different resources beyond income including social, economic and cultural capital. It emphasises broader structural factors such as labour market processes and state policies which influence the availability and/or benefit delivery capacity of household resources, and thereby moves beyond the dominant view which overemphasises the resilience of the poor. Gender divisions within the household are also examined. The book adopts an innovative method for measuring poverty. The new method combines 'objective' and subjective dimensions of deprivation to develop a unique way of addressing two central questions: what are those standards of living whose absence indicates deprivation, and how can the value of each standard of living be determined?

Poverty and Development in China - Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment (Hardcover): Caizhen Lu Poverty and Development in China - Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment (Hardcover)
Caizhen Lu
R4,368 Discovery Miles 43 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China. Poverty and Development in China analyses how poverty is recognized and measured and how people in poverty are identified, literally asking: who is poor in China? Lu Caizhen 's research compares four approaches to poverty assessment: China 's official poverty identification method, the participatory approach to poverty assessment, the monetary approach, and use of multidimensional poverty indicators. Each of these is applied to the same population of households to identify the poor in rural Wuding County, Yunnan Province.

The analysis shows that there is in fact very little overlap of households identified as poor by the various means, and that choice of approach does matter in the outcome of who is identified as poor. This has implications at the theoretical, methodological, and policy levels. Lu discusses these in detail, concluding that at present, there is a need to shift away from poverty reduction strategies that narrowly emphasize income generation activities, as these are often short-term efforts. Instead, the focus should move towards a broader combination of short-term and long-term strategies to break poverty 's inter-linked structural causes.

Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars - A Study of Income Distribution and Development in Kenya (Hardcover): Mwangi Wa... Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars - A Study of Income Distribution and Development in Kenya (Hardcover)
Mwangi Wa Githinji
R2,596 Discovery Miles 25 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2000. An analysis of income distribution and development in Kenya, seeking to increase the reader's understanding of the political economy of that country. The author offers three contributions. He provides an estimate of income inequality in Kenya. He presents data on time allocation in Kenya which makes it possible to compare the distribution of work with the distribution of income. Finally, he attempts to construct a class analysis that goes beyond the debates of the 1970s and 1980s, and goes on to draw a number of important conclusions from his findings.

Welfare's Forgotten Past - A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law (Paperback): Lorie Charlesworth Welfare's Forgotten Past - A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law (Paperback)
Lorie Charlesworth
R1,351 Discovery Miles 13 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

That poor law was law is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not simply local custom, but consisted of legal rights, duties and obligations that went beyond social altruism. This legal truth is, however, still ignored or rejected by some historians, and thus lost to social welfare policy-makers. This forgetting or minimising of a legal, enforceable right to relief has not only led to a misunderstanding of welfare s past; it has also contributed to the stigmatisation of poverty, and the emergence and persistence of the idea that its relief is a 'gift' from the state.

Documenting the history and the effects of this forgetting, whilst also providing a legal history of welfare, Lorie Charlesworth argues that it is timely for social policy-makers and reformists in Britain, the United States and elsewhere to reconsider an alternative welfare model, based on the more positive, legal aspects of welfare s 400-year legal history.

Social Work and Poverty - Attitudes and Actions (Paperback): Monica Dowling Social Work and Poverty - Attitudes and Actions (Paperback)
Monica Dowling
R1,029 Discovery Miles 10 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1999, this much-needed volume powerfully re-evaluates attitudes to the 'deserving and 'undeserving' poor and aims to investigate social workers' attitudes and actions towards poverty issues, social service users who have needed financial help and to question whether learning about poverty is an integrated part of social work students' training and social workers' in-service training. Monica Dowling has experience of being a social work student and social worker, as well as a social work teacher and researcher. In an age when increasing numbers of undergraduate and postgraduate students are unemployed and living on benefits, Dowling reveals the true picture of the people who end up on the poverty line, reconnecting social work theory and practice.

Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries (Paperback): Carlo Raffo, Alan Dyson, Helen Gunter, Dave Hall, Lisa Jones, Afroditi... Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries (Paperback)
Carlo Raffo, Alan Dyson, Helen Gunter, Dave Hall, Lisa Jones, …
R1,419 Discovery Miles 14 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For the first time, researchers, policymakers and practitioners across the world will have access to a comprehensive mapping of research evidence and policy strategies about education and poverty in affluent countries. Although there is widespread agreement that poverty and poor educational outcomes are related, there are competing explanations as to why that should be the case. This is a major problem for practitioners, policy makers and researchers who are looking for pointers to action, or straightforward ways of understanding an issue that troubles education systems across the world. This unique book brings scholarship and analysis from some of the most influential researchers and writers on education and poverty within one text. The authors provide a synthesising framework that will help researchers and policy makers to examine future educational policy in a holistic and comprehensive fashion.

Work Behavior of the World's Poor - Theory, Evidence and Policy (Paperback): Mohammed Sharif Work Behavior of the World's Poor - Theory, Evidence and Policy (Paperback)
Mohammed Sharif
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The working poor of the world are observed to engage in long hours in hard jobs and to work more if wages are further reduced. Mainstream economics brushes off this tendency to increase labour supply as wages fall as perverse because it does not fit the conventional wisdom and tries to explain it as a result of "subsistence mentality", "limited aspiration", or "target income" behaviour of the poor. This however ignores the observed fact that the poor work long hard hours but most of the time, fail to meet their minimum needs of subsistence and live impoverished lives in absolute poverty deficient of both food and physical rest. This book postulates that the observed behaviour is the result of economic distress the working poor suffer and analyses it as a rational behaviour using the conventional utility maximization framework and derives both theoretical and empirical results consistent with the observation. This book aims to correct a serious misconception persisting in the literature relating to the working-poor labour-supply behaviour that is almost universally observed. It also goes onto develop, using the supply function, a methodology to determine the standard of subsistence income and physical rest for the worker.

Ageing and Poverty in Africa - Ugandan Livelihoods in a Time of HIV/AIDS (Paperback): Alun Williams Ageing and Poverty in Africa - Ugandan Livelihoods in a Time of HIV/AIDS (Paperback)
Alun Williams
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2003. The rapid demographic aging of populations worldwide, and most dramatically in developing countries, will result in unprecedented increases in the absolute and relative numbers of the aged in these countries. Whilst developed economies already have the basic infrastructure in place through which to support their ageing populations, developing nations frequently do not, and it should not be assumed that their best course of action is to attempt to duplicate the supportive infrastructures of developed countries. In developing nations these may be culturally inappropriate, geographically inaccessible, economically or politically unsustainable, or all of these. Effective and sustainable support services must be designed with reference to the circumstances of the client group, and it is increasingly evident that knowledge of the lives of the aged in developing countries is currently very limited. This book aims to inform the reader on the livelihoods of elders in developing countries and to stimulate a discussion of appropriate methods of supporting them in maintaining their quality of life during and beyond the coming decades of demographic change. It does so through reporting the lives and livelihoods of the aged population of Kikole (a pseudonym), a highly impoverished village in Uganda. Individual livelihoods are explored from a lifecourse perspective, with present day quality of life being shown often to be the result of earlier enforced changes in circumstances arising in economic, social or cultural marginalization, political or physical insecurity, or macro-economic change, rather than in the physical or mental changes that may accompany advancing age.

Development and Poverty Reduction - A Global Comparative Perspective (Hardcover): Yongnian Zheng, Jiwei Qian Development and Poverty Reduction - A Global Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)
Yongnian Zheng, Jiwei Qian
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although the absolute number of poor people in the world has declined significantly in recent decades, poverty reduction continues to be a very important issue. There still are very large numbers of poor people, relative poverty is an increasingly concerning problem, and progress on poverty reduction varies enormously from one part of the world to another. Factors contributing to poverty reduction include economic growth, economic integration, and specific poverty-reduction programs, which are often initiated by Western countries. This book considers poverty reduction from a global perspective. Development and Poverty Reduction looks at a wide range of specific subjects, across all continents. It highlights in particular how the issues are perceived from a non-Western perspective and especially how the rise of China is both having a profound impact on poverty reduction globally and also changing the overall way in which development and poverty reduction are approached.

Social Policy and Poverty in East Asia - The Role of Social Security (Paperback): James Midgley, Kwong-Leung Tang Social Policy and Poverty in East Asia - The Role of Social Security (Paperback)
James Midgley, Kwong-Leung Tang
R1,616 Discovery Miles 16 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the ongoing challenge of poverty in East Asia despite the region s spectacular experience of economic growth in decent decades. The East Asian miracle resulted over the last four decades in a transformation of the region s traditional agrarian economies and significant increases in standards of living for many ordinary people. Even though it was given little attention, poverty has remained an ongoing problem. The problem became particularly evident however with the Asian financial crisis of 1997 when many low income and middle class workers became unemployed. As a result of this crisis, the need for effective social policies and social security programs were recognized. The idea that economic growth would solve the problem of poverty was increasingly challenged. Even in China today, where rapid growth has created new employment opportunities and the promise of prosperity for many, the government has recognized that the problem of poverty cannot be addressed only through economic growth but that comprehensive social policies must be formulated, and this includes the development of an effective security system.

Living on the Margins: Social Access to Shelter in Urban South Asia (Paperback): Navtej K. Purewal Living on the Margins: Social Access to Shelter in Urban South Asia (Paperback)
Navtej K. Purewal
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2000. The privatization of former social state housing through recent public-private partnerships is becoming increasingly prevalent in Third World as well as in Western countries. In most Third World countries, this shift has had profound effects upon the patterns of access of shelter. Drawing on studies of South Asian and other Third World contexts, as well as original in-depth empirical research from Amritsar, a city in North-West India, this book offers an analysis of the withdrawal of state housing provision. It develops and applies a unique model based on social status to analyze the new routes of access to housing and land by the urban poor. Its conclusions argue that these new privatization policies largely rely upon already existing informal and self-help settlements which continue to attract the poor and to be the largest housing providers in many cities, thus providing a ready-made safety net for such policies. The inter-linkages between the private state and the public market make up a highly diversified and complex picture of shelter arrangements being accessed by the poor which is reflected in the social differentiation and increasingly stratified housing market. The book argues that these partnership policies therefore have long-term implications upon social patterns of inclusion and exclusion which must be addressed.

Poverty, Progress and Development (Hardcover): Paul-Marc Henry Poverty, Progress and Development (Hardcover)
Paul-Marc Henry
R4,374 Discovery Miles 43 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The studies of poverty, progress and development in this volume, first published in 1991, by a distinguished international roster of authors and researchers, aim to increase knowledge of the social mechanisms of pauperization, marginalization, and the exclusion of certain categories of society; to bring to light the potential and creative role of socio-cultural, intellectual, ethical, moral and spiritual values in progress and the development process; and to examine the links and contradictions between development and progress in order to propose ways of reducing social inequalities.

The Constitution of Poverty (Routledge Revivals) - Towards a genealogy of liberal governance (Hardcover): Mitchell Dean The Constitution of Poverty (Routledge Revivals) - Towards a genealogy of liberal governance (Hardcover)
Mitchell Dean
R3,501 R2,896 Discovery Miles 28 960 Save R605 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1991, This book looks at how capitalism has affected the organization of the poor. It also explores what the links are between notions of poverty and notions personal responsibility, philanthropy, morality and state forms. An intruiging work for anyone interested in the foundations and long-term progression of the welfare state.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - Benefits, Eligibility, & Provisions in the 2014 Farm Bill (Hardcover):... Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - Benefits, Eligibility, & Provisions in the 2014 Farm Bill (Hardcover)
Samuel C. Ward
R3,868 Discovery Miles 38 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily to increase the food purchasing power of eligible low-income households to help them buy a nutritionally adequate low-cost diet. This book describes the rules related to eligibility for SNAP benefits as well as the rules for benefits and their redemption. In addition, this book discusses categorical eligibility and some of the issues raised by it. It first describes the three different types of categorical eligibility: traditional categorical eligibility conveyed through receipt of need-based cash assistance, and the newer "narrow" and "broad-based" categorical eligibilities conveyed via TANF "noncash" benefits. It also provides recent information on current state practices with regard to categorical eligibility, and discusses proposals to restrict categorical eligibility. Finally, the book discusses the Nutrition Title (Title IV) of the enacted 2014 farm bill.

U.S. Farm Businesses & the Role of Debt - Use Patterns & Key Trends (Hardcover): Laura C. Hughes U.S. Farm Businesses & the Role of Debt - Use Patterns & Key Trends (Hardcover)
Laura C. Hughes
R3,864 Discovery Miles 38 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Farm businesses' debt-use decisions can affect their growth and survival, as well as the economic vitality of farm-dependent rural communities. Thus policymakers, agricultural lenders, and other farm-sector participants closely follow trends in farm debt. This book is a primer on the use of debt by U.S. farm businesses for policymakers, researchers, and others interested in the financial well-being of U.S. agriculture. It presents data on basic debt-use patterns by farm businesses (in 2011, over 900,000 farms operated as farm businesses based on their size, organisational structure, or the occupation of their principal operator) and explores key trends over 20 years. U.S. farm debt use varies widely by farm size, specialisation, operator age, and other farm characteristics.

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