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Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion
(CROP International Poverty Studies ; vol. 1, Book; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-06)Worldwide child and youth poverty remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while ... -
Development and Sustainability: The Challenge of Social Change
(CROP International Studies in Poverty Research, Book; Peer reviewed, 2016-03-15)While the need for effective action toward a greener and socially inclusive economy has long been evident, health promotion in the context of sustainable development has faltered. Arguing that human health is the key factor ... -
Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the 21st Century: Theories, Debates, Realities and Policies
(CROP International Studies in Poverty Research, Book; Peer reviewed, 2016-08-15)Peasants are a majority of the world’s poor. Despite this, there has been little effort to bridge the fields of peasant and poverty studies. Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the 21st Century provides a much-needed critical ... -
The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South
(CROP International Poverty Studies ; vol. 3, Book; Peer reviewed, 2017-10)This book contributes to the debates on the production and eradication of poverty in the global South. It collects a set of innovative articles concentrating on the way in which poverty, as a social process, has been ... -
The Politics of Social Inclusion: Bridging Knowledge and Policies Towards Social Change
(CROP International Studies in Poverty Research ; 9, Book; Peer reviewed, 2020-03)This volume looks at concepts and processes of social exclusion and social inclusion. It traces a number of discourses, all of them routed in a relational power analysis, examining them in the context of the UN Agenda for ... -
Poverty and Inequality in Middle Income Countries: Policy Achievements, Political Obstacles
(CROP International Studies in Poverty Research, Book; Peer reviewed, 2016-04-15)This collection offers a timely reassessment of viable ways of addressing poverty across the globe today. The profile of global poverty has changed dramatically over the past decade, and around three-quarters of the poor ... -
Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Look Forward
(CROP International Studies in Poverty Research, Book; Peer reviewed, 2016-02-15)As the Millennium Development Goals pass their 2015 deadline and the international community is discussing the future of international development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading ... -
Poverty as Ideology. Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas
(CROP Series in International Poverty Studies, Book; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-15)Poverty as Ideology shows how our dominant approaches to poverty studies have, in fact, served to reinforce the prevailing neoliberal ideology while neglecting the wider interests of social justice that are fundamental to ... -
Protecting the health of the poor: Social Movements in the South
(CROP International Studies in Poverty Research, Book; Peer reviewed, 2015-12-15)Despite the colossal amount of spending on health and healthcare programmes globally, why do massive inequalities in health remain, both within and between countries? Drawing on in-depth empirical research spanning Asia, ... -
Putting Children First: New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa
(CROP International Studies in Poverty Research ; 7, Book; Peer reviewed, 2019)Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood ... -
Social Connectedness and Poverty Eradication: A South African Perspective
(Global Challenges - Working Paper Series, Working paper, 2017-05)Building on earlier work which argues that social isolation can be both a consequence of living in poverty and a cause of its persistence, this paper presents case studies of two South African programmes to illustrate how ... -
Social Policy, Poverty, and Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Agency and Institutions in Flux
(CROP International Studies in Poverty Research ; 6, Book; Peer reviewed, 2019)This volume takes stock of the diverse and divergent welfare trajectories of post-socialist countries across Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. It traces the impacts, in terms of poverty, ... -
Water and Development: Good Governance after Neoliberalism
(CROP International Studies in Poverty Research, Book; Peer reviewed, 2015-09-15)Water has always been a crucial catalyst for human development. In Africa, competition among different sectors for this scarce resource remains a critical challenge to water managers and decision-makers. 'Water and ...