Poverty and social deprivation in the Mediterranean : trends, policies, and welfare prospects in the new millennium /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	International Social Science Council
Other Authors:	Petmesidou, Maria (Editor), Papatheodorou, Christos (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London, England : Zed Books, ©2006.
Series:	CROP international studies in poverty research.
Subjects:	Poverty > Mediterranean Region. Marginality, Social > Mediterranean Region. Public welfare > Mediterranean Region. Sociology Mediterranean Region > Social conditions > 21st century. Mediterranean Region > Economic conditions > 21st century. Mediterranean Region > Social policy. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: comparing poverty phenomena in the Mediterranean area / Maria Petmesidou and Christos Papatheodorou
Poverty profiles and trends. How do southern European countries compare with each other? / Christos Papatheodorou and Maria Petmesidou
Poverty and poverty discourses in Italy in comparative perspective / Chiara Saraceno
Poverty and anti-poverty policies in Portugal: the experience of the Guaranteed Minimum Income / José Pereirinha
Absolute poverty of illegal immigrants in Spain: a growing problem / Ubaldo Martinez Veiga
Poverty reduction strategies and well-being in Albania and Former Yugoslavia / Gerry Redmond
The poor, excluded and transition losers in the south-eastern European transition economies / Ivo Bićanić and VojmirFraničević
Dynamics of poverty in Turkey: gender, rural/urban poverty, social networks and reciprocal survival strategies / Sibel Kalaycioğlu
Poverty in Israel: taking a multi-dimensional approach / Jacques Silber and Michael Sorin
The making of poverty in Palestine / Jamil Hilal
Social stratification obstacles to reducing inequality and alleviating poverty: the case of Lebanon / Sylvia Haladjian-Henriksen
Understanding recent trends in poverty and inequality in the Maghreb (with an emphasis on Morocco) / Mina Baliamoune-Lutz
Poverty evaluation in Algeria: a logitprobit model applied to a multi-dimensional field survey in the region of Tlemcen / Abderrezak Benhabib, Tahar Ziani, Samir Baha-Eddine Maliki
Concluding commentary: poverty in the Mediterranean region
applying a human rights strategy / Peter Townsend.