The poverty wars: reconnecting research with reality
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Main Author: Saunders, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Sydney, NSW UNSW Press 2005
Series:James Bennett Etitle
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-152) and index
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 CONTESTING POVERTY; A new war on poverty; A new battleground; Key issues and ideas; More research?; 2 MAPPING THE POVERTY PROFILE; Contesting poverty; Setting broad limits on Australian poverty; Mapping the profile of poverty; The limitations of statistical poverty; The meaning of poverty; 3 NEW CONCEPTS, NEW EVIDENCE; Regaining the initiative; Redefining poverty; Deprivation, capability and exclusion; Poverty as accumulated disadvantage; 4 THE CAUSES OF POVERTY; Cause as description; Structural inequalities; Events, combinations and accumulations
Saunders argues that as a nation Australia can afford to eliminate financial poverty. The fact that we don't do so is a matter of choice, not affordability - as the experience of other countries demonstrates. In challenging this idea, this book focuses on how looking at poverty differently can help to make a world without poverty a practical reality
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (158 p.)
ISBN:1423790049
9781423790044
0868401323
9780868401324

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