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Poverty and social deprivation in the Mediterranean [electronic resource] : trends, policies, and welfare prospects in the new millennium / Maria Petmesidou and Christos Papatheodorou, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CROP international studies in poverty researchPublication details: London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2006.Description: 1 online resource (414 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9781848131637 (electronic bk.)
  • 1848131631 (electronic bk.)
Other title:
  • Poverty & social deprivation in the Mediterranean [Cover title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poverty and social deprivation in the Mediterranean.DDC classification:
  • 362.509182/2 22
LOC classification:
  • HV375.7 .P68 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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"ISSC, International Social Science Council."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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

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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