TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petmesidou,Maria
AU  - Papatheodorou,Christos
ED  - International Social Science Council.
TI  - Poverty and social deprivation in the Mediterranean: trends, policies, and welfare prospects in the new millennium 
T2  - CROP international studies in poverty research
SN  - 9781848131637 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HV375.7 .P68 2006eb
U1  - 362.509182/2 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London, New York, New York
PB  - Zed Books, Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - Marginality, Social
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Poverty & Homelessness
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social policy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "ISSC, International Social Science Council."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Tables and figures; Acknowledgements; 1 -- Introduction: comparing poverty phenomena in the Mediterranean area; one -- The southern EU member states, the Balkan transition countries and Turkey; 2 -- Poverty profiles and trends. How do southern European countries compare with each other?; 3 -- Poverty and poverty discourses in Italy in comparative perspective; 4 -- Poverty and anti-poverty policies in Portugal: the experience of the Guaranteed Minimum Income; 5 -- Absolute poverty of illegal immigrants in Spain: a growing problem
N2  - In the growth of regional identities worldwide, the Mediterranean Basin is emerging as an entity in its own right. This book, a unique collaboration among social scientists around the entire Mediterranean littoral, covers Southern Europe, Turkey, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Near East. Leading economists, sociologists and social policy experts document with new and up-to-date empirical material the changing profiles of poverty and social deprivation. The result is a thought-provoking comparison of the extent, severity and structural causes of poverty and social inequality, and the huge d
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