ABOUT THE BOOK

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    Accession Number

 B427

    Title

 Researching Poverty

    Author

 Bradshaw Jonathan/ Sainsbury Roy

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     Summary

The contents of the book includes below: 1. Editors’ Introduction 2. Post-1945 Poverty Research and Things to Come 3. The Scientific Measurement of Poverty: Recent Theoretical Advances 4. Agreeing Poverty Lines: The Development of consensual budget standards methodology 5. Developing the use of administrative data to study poverty 6. Analysis of Low Income using the family resources survey 7. A Century of poverty in England and Wales, 1898-1998: A geographical analysis 8. Urban deprivation and government expenditure: Where does spending go? 9. The Geography of misery: Area disadvantage and patterns of neighbourhood dissatisfaction in England 10. From Poverty to social exclusion? The legacy of London Overspill in Haverhill 11. Patters of exclusion in the electronic economy 12. Poverty studies in Europe and the evolution of the concept of social exclusion 13. Where are ‘the Poor’ in the Future of Poverty Research?