World Poverty : New Policies to Defeat an Old Enemy

New Policies to Defeat an Old Enemy

By: Peter Townsend (Editor), David Gordon (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 December 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Designed to make a contribution to the integration of human rights values into world poverty reduction strategies, this work provides suggestions on how to translate human rights norms, such as the right to social security, the right to an adequate standard of living and the rights of the child.

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"This publication will make a valuable contribution to the integration of human rights values into world poverty reduction strategies. The authors provide concrete suggestions on how to translate human rights norms, such as the right to social security, the right to an adequate standard of living, the rights of the child, the right to health and the right to education, into effective anti-poverty strategies." Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Notes on contributors	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: the human condition is structurally unequal	p. xi
International anti-poverty policy: the problems of the Washington Consensus	p. 1
Poverty, social exclusion and social polarisation: the need to construct an international welfare state	p. 3
Is rising income inequality inevitable? A critique of the 'Transatlantic Consensus'	p. 25
The international measurement of poverty and anti-poverty policies	p. 53
Anti-poverty policies in rich countries	p. 81
Social policy in the US: workfare and the American low-wage labour market	p. 83
A European definition of poverty: the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the member states of the European Union	p. 119
Welfare state solidarity and support: the Czech Republic compared with the Netherlands	p. 147
Targeting welfare: on the functions and dysfunctions of means testing in social policy	p. 171
Anti-poverty policies in poor countries	p. 195
Structural adjustment and mass poverty in Ghana	p. 197
Social funds in sub-Saharan Africa: how effective for poverty reduction?	p. 233
Urban water supply, sanitation and social policy: lessons from Johannesburg, South Africa	p. 251
Round pegs and square holes: mismatches between poverty and housing policy in urban India	p. 271
Urban poverty in China: incidence and policy responses	p. 297
'A new branch can be strengthened by an old branch': livelihoods and challenges to inter-generational solidarity in South Africa	p. 325
Future anti-poverty policies: national and international	p. 349
Human rights, transnational corporations and the World Bank	p. 351
Are we really reducing global poverty?	p. 377
1% of [Euro dollar]10,000 billion	p. 401
Conclusion: constructing an anti-poverty strategy	p. 413
Manifesto: international action to defeat poverty	p. 433
Index of material and social deprivation: national (UK) and cross-national	p. 437
Index	p. 443
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