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Breadline Europe: The measurement of poverty

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Breadline Europe: The measurement of poverty
Authors and Contributors      Edited by David Gordon
Edited by Peter Townsend
SeriesStudies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:480
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9781861342928
ClassificationsDewey:362.5094
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations No

Publishing Details

Publisher Policy Press
Imprint Policy Press
Publication Date 27 December 2000
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Since 1990, the World Bank, most of the other international agencies and an increasing number of governments have committed themselves to the eradication of poverty. But the basis of their work badly needs overhaul and concerted verification. Breadline Europe provides a scientific and international basis for the analysis and reduction of poverty. It demonstrates that there is far more important research into the problem of poverty going on in many countries of Europe than the international agencies and national governments admit or even realise. Knowledge of the major scientific advances in research needs to be spread among other countries within as well as outside Europe. Breadline Europe has been written by a number of leading European poverty researchers and has three main themes: the need for a scientific poverty line: for better definition and measurement of what is the biggest and rapidly growing international social problem; the need for better theories distinguishing between poverty and social exclusion, with the corresponding policies calculated to diminish these problems; the need for better international social policy and for better policy-related analyses of poverty: for more exact analysis of the year-by-year contribution of specific policies to poverty. This is the first book to examine poverty in Europe within the international framework agreed at the 1995 World Summit on Social Development. Breadline Europe provides up-to-date, essential reading for social science undergraduates and postgraduate students. It will also be of considerable interest to policy makers and NGOs with a concern for poverty reduction.

Author Biography

David Gordon is Professor of Social Justice and Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Peter Townsend was Professor of International Social Policy at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science until his death in June 2009.

Reviews

"... provides rich material for students of poverty." Research Matters