Inequality and poverty re-examined

Jenkins, Stephen P ORCID: 0000-0002-8305-9774 (2007) Inequality and poverty re-examined. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199218110

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Abstract

The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the way in which we seek to study and understand them continues to change over time. This accessible new book seeks to provide a guide to some of the new approaches that have been developed in the light of international initiatives to reduce poverty and the notable increases in income inequality and poverty that have occurred across many western countries in recent years. These new approaches have to some degree been facilitated by the emergence of new techniques and a growing availability of data that enables cross national comparisons not only of income variables but also of measures of welfare such as education achievement, nutritional status in developing countries and wealth and deprivation indicators in the developed world. Including specially commissioned research from a distinguished list of international authors, this volume makes a real contribution to the public debate surrounding inequality and poverty as well as providing new empirical information about them from around the world.

Item Type:	Book
Official URL:	http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/
Additional Information:	© 2007 Oxford University Press
Divisions:	Social Policy STICERD
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	02 Feb 2011 11:21
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 14:34
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/31972

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