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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment

The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality - Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change (Paperback): Peter Dwyer, Lisa Scullion, Katy... The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality - Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change (Paperback)
Peter Dwyer, Lisa Scullion, Katy Jones, Jenny McNeill, Alasdair B. R. Stewart
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Should a citizen's right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour? Welfare conditionality, linking citizens' eligibility for social benefits and services to prescribed compulsory responsibilities or behaviours, has become a key component of welfare reform in many nations. This book uses qualitative longitudinal data, from repeat interviews with people subject to compulsion and sanction in their everyday lives, to analyse the effectiveness and ethicality of welfare conditionality in promoting and sustaining behaviour change in the UK. Given the negative outcomes that welfare conditionality routinely triggers, this book calls for the abandonment of these sanctions and reiterates the importance of genuinely supportive policies that promote social security and wider equality.

Civil Society and Global Poverty - Hegemony, Inclusivity, Legitimacy (Paperback): Clive Gabay Civil Society and Global Poverty - Hegemony, Inclusivity, Legitimacy (Paperback)
Clive Gabay
R1,489 Discovery Miles 14 890 Ships in 12 - 19 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. "

Amity and Prosperity - One Family and the Fracturing of America (Paperback): Eliza Griswold Amity and Prosperity - One Family and the Fracturing of America (Paperback)
Eliza Griswold
R520 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Measuring Poverty (Hardcover): Stephan Klasen Measuring Poverty (Hardcover)
Stephan Klasen
R10,617 Discovery Miles 106 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This impressive research collection discusses the most important contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field of poverty measurement. It analyses what constitutes poverty and associated poverty measures, as well as conceptual and empirical approaches to set poverty lines for both national and international settings. The research collection also discusses national and international income poverty measures, multidimensional poverty indices, and ways to capture poverty dynamics.

The War on Disabled People - Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe (Paperback): Ellen Clifford The War on Disabled People - Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe (Paperback)
Ellen Clifford
R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights. Since then, driven by the Tory government's obsessive drive to slash public spending whilst scapegoating the most disadvantaged in society, the situation for disabled people in Britain has continued to deteriorate. Punitive welfare regimes, the removal of essential support and services, and an ideological regime that seeks to deny disability has resulted in a situation described by the UN as a 'human catastrophe'. In this searing account, Ellen Clifford - an activist who has been at the heart of resistance against the war on disabled people - reveals precisely how and why this state of affairs has come about. From spineless political opposition to self-interested disability charities, rightwing ideological myopia to the media demonization of benefits claimants, a shocking picture emerges of how the government of the fifth-richest country in the world has been able to marginalize disabled people with near-impunity. Even so, and despite austerity biting ever deeper, the fightback has begun, with a vibrant movement of disabled activists and their supporters determined to hold the government to account - the slogan 'Nothing About Us Without Us' has never been so apt. As this book so powerfully demonstrates, if Britain is to stand any chance of being a just and equitable society, their battle is one we should all be fighting.

Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap - Overcoming Deprivation in the Inner City (Paperback): Paul Mosley, Pamela Lenton Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap - Overcoming Deprivation in the Inner City (Paperback)
Paul Mosley, Pamela Lenton
R1,675 Discovery Miles 16 750 Ships in 12 - 19 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."

The Crisis and Challenge of African Development (Hardcover): Harvey Glickman The Crisis and Challenge of African Development (Hardcover)
Harvey Glickman
R2,784 Discovery Miles 27 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The collective message of this compendium is caution: don't put excessive pressure on African institutions. Sayre Schatz, Ravi Gulhati and Satya Yalamanchili, and Raymond Hopkins, in particular, argue that laissez-faire won't work in Africa; that reforms must be carefully sequenced; and that evidence on the relationship between food subsidies and declining agricultural productivity is scanty. Foreign Affairs This collection of essays was assembled to address the problems of Africa from a variety of perspectives. The contributors have attempted to ask some basic but up-to-now unaddressed questions and to reframe many of the issues. The overall approach is intentionally interdisciplinary. Although recognizing that Africa's economic decline has resulted from poorly designed policy, the contributors also attempt to place that policy in its historical and cultural context. Similarly, they establish a comparative perspective for Africa's economic performance, and point to outside forces that have been overlooked. Finally, the contributors investigate some key issues in agricultural policy, such as decentralization, the role of women, and food subsidies.

A Year Like No Other - Life on a Low Income during COVID-19 (Paperback): Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Jim... A Year Like No Other - Life on a Low Income during COVID-19 (Paperback)
Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Jim Kaufman, Geoff Page, …
R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Money was already tight for UK families living on a low income before the COVID-19 pandemic, but national lockdowns made life much harder. Telling the stories of these families, this book exposes the ways that pre-existing inequalities, insecurities and hardships were amplified during the pandemic for families who were already in poverty before COVID-19, as well as those pushed into poverty by the economic fallout it created. Drawing on the Covid Realities research programme, and developed in partnership with parents and carers, it explores experiences of home-schooling, social security receipt and government, community and charitable support. This book sets out all that is wrong with the status quo, while also offering a powerful agenda for change. Also see 'COVID-19 Collaborations: Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic' (Open Access) to find out more about the challenges of carrying out research during COVID-19.

Maid - Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Paperback): Stephanie Land Maid - Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Paperback)
Stephanie Land; Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich
R465 R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Save R35 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Reality of Aid 2000 - An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance (Paperback): Judith Randel,... The Reality of Aid 2000 - An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance (Paperback)
Judith Randel, Tony German, Deborah Ewing
R1,022 Discovery Miles 10 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

NOW IN ITS SEVENTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid 2000 looks at how the performance of OECD donor countries on aid and development cooperation has matched up to the challenge of eliminating absolute poverty. The report charts some improvements at the level of donor policy and rhetoric. But its stark conclusion is that the potential of aid to combat poverty is constantly undermined by governments, both North and South, who fail to address the extreme inequalities of income and the structural, social and political injustices that entrench people in poverty. Part I of The Reality of Aid 2000 presents an overview of poverty in the current global context and an analysis of recent trends in aid - looking particularly at basic education. In Part II, chapters by experts from NGOs in OECD countries and the European Union show how donor aid administrations approach poverty - and highlight the weakness of political commitment in the North to the needs of the poor. Part III sets out Southern perspectives on development cooperation. Part IV provides 'at a glance' comparisons of donors' aid outlook and commitment to development cooperation in the 21st century, poverty eradication, gender and public support. Throughout the book, information is presented in easily interpreted diagrams and graphs. The Reality of Aid has established itself as a unique source of independent evaluation and comment on aid policies and development. It is indispensable for all in the field, whether in the official or voluntary sectors, providing a regular reality check on just how much the international community is doing to realise the achievable goal of eliminating poverty. 'Indispensable ... it gives you most of the hard facts you need to know about the major issues' Nett-' Internationalist 'The most comprehensive and rigorous independent analysis of the aid and development policies of the world's wealthiest nations ... Essential reading' Charity World 'The Reality of Aid remains an essential purchase by the libraries of development institutions and an invaluable reference for development practitioners' Development & Change 'A reliable 'watchdog' for anyone interested in this important aspect of international relations' ORBIT 'An accessible reference ... [it] encompasses many key issues and stimulates further research' Commonwealth & Comparative Politics Originally published in 1999

Unemployment in Britain Between the Wars (Paperback): Stephen Constantine Unemployment in Britain Between the Wars (Paperback)
Stephen Constantine
R1,206 Discovery Miles 12 060 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Drawing on a range of contemporary evidence, Stephen Constantine studies the nature and causes of unemployment in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, and analyzes the failure of successive inter-war governments to make a constructive response.

On the Margins of Japanese Society - Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass (Paperback): Carolyn S. Stevens On the Margins of Japanese Society - Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass (Paperback)
Carolyn S. Stevens
R1,489 Discovery Miles 14 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society. Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that intimately explores the lives of Japan's social outcasts as well as those volunteers who seek to help them and as a consequence become socially marginalized themselves.

Rural Inequality in Divided Russia (Hardcover, New): Stephen Wegren Rural Inequality in Divided Russia (Hardcover, New)
Stephen Wegren
R4,788 Discovery Miles 47 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines economic and political polarisation in post-Soviet Russia, and in particular analyses the development of rural inequality. It discusses how rural inequality has developed in post-Soviet Russia, and how it differs from the Soviet period, and goes on to look at the factors that affect rural stratification and inequality, using human and social capital, profession, gender, and village location as independent variables. The book uses survey data from rural households and fieldwork in Russia in order to highlight the multiplicity of divisions that act as fault lines in contemporary rural Russia.

The Souls of Poor Folk (Paperback): Charles Lattimore Howard The Souls of Poor Folk (Paperback)
Charles Lattimore Howard; Contributions by Dennis P Culhane, James Spady, David White
R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Souls of Poor Folk is a collection of essays in the tradition of W.E.B. Du Bois's classic The Souls of Black Folk. The essays move between the scholarly, the narrative, and the testimonial just as they do in Du Bois's book. This text is meant to be a contribution to the critical dialogue around ways to alleviate poverty in our world. The contributors are diverse in their experience, origin, perspectives, and beliefs about the appropriate means to alleviate poverty and its many causes. This book is an essential companion to a multimedia initiative featuring a documentary and original music compilation available on compact disc that invites readers, listeners, and viewers to journey beyond the veil that hides the scars and blemishes of social problems, such as homelessness and poverty, especially in America. To learn more about the successful non-profit "Greater Love Project" initiative or to purchase other companion items including the CD, please visit: www.thesoulsofpoorfolk.org.

The Education of the Poor - The History of the National School 1824-1974 (Paperback): Pamela Silver, Harold Silver The Education of the Poor - The History of the National School 1824-1974 (Paperback)
Pamela Silver, Harold Silver
R1,610 Discovery Miles 16 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published 1974. Thousands of elementary schools for the children of the poor were founded during the nineteenth century, yet there is scarcely a published history of a single one of them. This volume is precisely such a history and the authors trace its story against the background of local and national change in education and society. On the basis of a unique collection of records the authors have pieced together a picture of the social composition of the school, its curriculum and teaching methods, and its administration and finance. They relate the history of the school to that of London and the church, to that of educational authorities and educational policy.

The People of Ship Street (Paperback): Madeline Kerr The People of Ship Street (Paperback)
Madeline Kerr
R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Trade Trap - Poverty and Global Commodity Markets (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Belinda Coote The Trade Trap - Poverty and Global Commodity Markets (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Belinda Coote
R668 Discovery Miles 6 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work explains how countries that depend on the export of primary commodities, like coffee or cotton, are caught in a trap: the more they produce the lower the price falls on the international market. If they try to add value to their commodities by processing them, they run into tariff barriers imposed by the rich industrialized nations. To make matters worse, they have to compete with subsidized exports dumped on the world market by rich surplus-product countries. This edition contains an additional chapter which reports on the outcome of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the creation of the new World Trade Organization. It examines the impact of rapid economic liberalization on the livelihoods and natural environments of poor communities and recommends ways in which trade could be regulated to protect their rights. The book explains the complexities of the world trade system and examines what poor countries can do about the trap in which they find themselves.

The First Century of Welfare - Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730 (Paperback): Jonathan Healey The First Century of Welfare - Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730 (Paperback)
Jonathan Healey
R813 Discovery Miles 8 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century: the first century of welfare. The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of very limited national wealth and productivity. The First Century of Welfare, which focusses on the poor, but developing, county of Lancashire, provides the first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century. Drawing on thousands of individual petitions for poor relief, presented by paupers themselves to magistrates, it peers into the social and economic world of England's marginal people. Taken together, these records present a vivid and sobering picture of the daily lives and struggles of the poor. We can see how their family life, their relations with their kin and their neighbours, and the dictates of contemporary gender norms conditioned their lives. We can also see how they experienced illness and physical and mental disability; and the ways in which real people's lives could be devastated by dearth, trade depression, and the destruction of the Civil Wars. But the picture is not just one of poor folk tossed by the tidesof fortune. It is also one of agency: about the strategies of economic survival the poor adopted, particularly in the context of a developing industrial economy, of the support they gained from their relatives and neighbours, andof their willingness to engage with England's developing system of social welfare to ensure that they and their families did not go hungry. In this book, an intensely human picture surfaces of what it was like to experience poverty at a time when the seeds of state social welfare were being planted. JONATHAN HEALEY is University Lecturer in English Local and Social History and Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

Dharavi - From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm (Hardcover): Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky Dharavi - From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm (Hardcover)
Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky
R4,806 Discovery Miles 48 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Located in the heart of Mumbai, Dharavi is estimated to be the largest slum in Asia. Often referred to as Little India, it has been home to thousands of migrants from across the country providing opportunities for work and livelihood. As such, Dharavi presents a fascinating paradox: the convergence of stereotypes associated with the slum poverty and misery and an effervescent economic vitality, impelled by globalisation and international capital flows.

Bringing together 20 years of painstaking fieldwork, this book reveals the social, economic, political, and urban complexities that define Dharavi beneath the shadow of Mumbai, the financial capital of India. It provides a rare account of the slum s history, with a special focus on the original populace of leather workers who form the backbone of its urban informal economy their work, organisation and increasing political awareness. Dominated by a population of ex- untouchables, conventionally stigmatised by poverty and low status, Dharavi illustrates how traditional caste-based occupational and regional divisions continue to be strong and affect structures of political governance and economy. At the same time, it testifies to an intimate encounter with consumerism, liberalisation and technological innovations, and its resultant cultural globalisation under the heady influence of media, advertising and cinema transmitted by the city of Mumbai.

This book traces the mega-slum s gradual transformation as a thriving trade centre, through an informal economy s successful adaptation to global markets, in turn establishing an urban paradigm. It will be useful to those in sociology, anthropology, urban studies, politics, public policy and governance, and to those interested in globalisation, transnational migration and town planning.

The Reality of Aid 1998-1999 - An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance (Paperback): Judith... The Reality of Aid 1998-1999 - An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance (Paperback)
Judith Randel, Tony German with Deborah Ewing
R1,377 Discovery Miles 13 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

NOW IN ITS SIXTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid has for the first time analysed the 'fair share' of bilateral aid for basic social services basic education, basic health, reproductive health, nutrition, clean water and sanitation - that should come from each donor; an analysis which shows only two donors meeting their fair share and the G7 nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, US) falling behind by over US$5 billion. This year and next, The Reality of Aid focuses on basic education, as a right and not a privilege, and its role in development cooperation and poverty elimination. A key feature of The Reality of Aid 1998/1999 is the ten chapters offering analysis of development cooperation from the perspective of southern NGOs. Many of these focus on basic education and raise issues around transparency, gender and civil society. 'If policies were programmes and promises were dollars, The Reality of Aid could report great progress on the road to eradicating global poverty this year. But at a time when donors acknowledge that ending poverty is possible, it seems that commitments are being offered instead of resources and real change.' From the Summary Part I presents a useful Summary, highlighting the steps that donors could take now to make progress towards poverty eradication, and reviews the trends in development cooperation, debt relief measures targeted towards the new millennium and commitment to the goal of ensuring basic education for all. Part II gives a full report on the overseas aid performance of OECD country aid donors and the European Union over the last year. Part III sets out a Southern perspective on development cooperation. Part IV provides 'at a glance' comparisons of donors' aid outlook and commitment to development cooperation in the 21st Century, poverty eradication, gender and public support. Part V contains handy reference material. Throughout the book, information is presented in easily interpreted diagrams and graphs. The Reality of Aid has established itself as a unique source of independent evaluation and comment on aid policies and development. It is indispensable for all in the field, whether in the official or voluntary sectors. 'Indispensable ... it gives you most of the hard facts you need to know about the major issues' New Internationalist 'The most comprehensive and rigorous independent analysis of the aid and development policies of the world's wealthiest nations ... Essential reading' Charity World 'The Reality of Aid remains an essential purchase by the libraries of development institutions and an invaluable reference for development practitioners' Development & Change 'A reliable 'watchdog' for anyone interested in this important aspect of international relations' ORBIT 'An accessible reference ... [it] encompasses many key issues and stimulates further research' Commonwealth & Comparative Politics Originally published in 1998

The Politics of Hunger - Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840 (Hardcover): Carl J. Griffin The Politics of Hunger - Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840 (Hardcover)
Carl J. Griffin
R2,486 R2,155 Discovery Miles 21 550 Save R331 (13%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named 'Hungry 40s' came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in England. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were supposedly the period in which the threat of famine lifted for the peoples of England. But hunger remained, in the words of Marx, an 'unremitted pressure'. The politics of hunger offers the first systematic analysis of the ways in which hunger continued to be experienced and feared, both as a lived and constant spectral presence. It also examines how hunger was increasingly used as a disciplining device in new modes of governing the population. Drawing upon a rich archive, this innovative and conceptually-sophisticated study throws new light on how hunger persisted as a political and biological force. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero hunger. -- .

The English Poor in the Eighteenth Century - A Study in Social and Administrative History (Paperback): Dorothy Marshall The English Poor in the Eighteenth Century - A Study in Social and Administrative History (Paperback)
Dorothy Marshall
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In the Web of Class - Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s (Paperback, New Ed): Eric C. Schneider In the Web of Class - Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s (Paperback, New Ed)
Eric C. Schneider
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"An analytic overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston..[Schneider] traces cogently the origins, development, and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency."
--"Choice"

"Anyone who wants to understand why America's approach to juvenile justice doesn't work should read In the Web of Class."
--Michael B. Katz, University of Pennsylvania

Respectability and the London Poor, 1780-1870 - The Value of Virtue (Hardcover): Lynn MacKay Respectability and the London Poor, 1780-1870 - The Value of Virtue (Hardcover)
Lynn MacKay
R4,630 Discovery Miles 46 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The population of London soared during the Industrial Revolution and the poorer areas became iconic places of overcrowding and vice. Focusing on the communities of Westminster, MacKay shows that many of the plebeian populace retained traditional working-class pursuits, such as gambling, drinking and blood sports.

Urban Poverty in the Global South - Scale and Nature (Hardcover, New): Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite Urban Poverty in the Global South - Scale and Nature (Hardcover, New)
Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite
R4,499 Discovery Miles 44 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South - mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision. This book explains how and why the scale and depth of urban poverty is so frequently under-estimated by governments and international agencies worldwide. The authors also consider whether economic growth does in fact reduce poverty, exploring the paradox of successful economies that show little evidence of decreasing poverty. Many official figures on urban poverty, including those based on the US $1 per day poverty line, present a very misleading picture of urban poverty's scale. These common errors in definition and measurement by governments and international agencies lead to poor understanding of urban poverty and inadequate policy provision. This is compounded by the lack of voice and influence that low income groups have in these official spheres. This book explores many different aspects of urban poverty including the associated health burden, inadequate food intake, inadequate incomes, assets and livelihood security, poor living and working conditions and the absence of any rule of law. Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature fills the gap for a much needed systematic overview of the historical and contemporary state of urban poverty in the Global South. This comprehensive and detailed book is a unique resource for students and lecturers in development studies, urban development, development geography, social policy, urban planning and design, and poverty reduction.

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