Poverty : an international glossary /: an international glossary. (©2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Paul Spicker, Sonia Alvarez Leguizamó́n, and David Gordon.
• Other Names: Spicker, Paul; Álvarez Leguizamón, Sonia; Gordon, David, 1959-; Comparative Research Programme on Poverty.; International Social Science Council.
• Contents: . About the Editors -- Editorial Board -- Contributors -- About CROP -- Introducing the glossary -- Definitions of poverty: twelve clusters of meaning -- Absolute Poverty -- Administrative Poverty -- Amenities -- Arabic (Traditional) Definitions of Poverty -- Area Deprivation -- Asset Vulnerability Framework -- Australian Definitions of Poverty -- Axiom of Monotonicity; Axiom of Transfers -- Basic Income -- Basic Needs -- Basic Security (Security of Existence) -- Begging -- Beveridge Scheme -- Bismarckian Social Insurance -- Brazilian Definitions of Poverty -- Budget Standards -- Calorie-Income Elasticity (CIE) -- Capabilities And Characteristics -- Charity -- Charity Organization Society -- Child Malnutrition -- Child Mortality -- Child Poverty -- Chinese Definitions of Poverty -- Chronic Poverty -- Class -- Command Over Resources -- Conditionality -- Consensual Methods -- Consumption -- Contextual Poverty -- Conversion Capacity -- Culture of Poverty -- Cycle of Deprivation -- Dependency -- Dependency Culture -- Dependency Theory -- Deprivation -- Deserving Poor -- Destitution -- Development -- Direct And Indirect Measures of Poverty -- Disability And Poverty -- Disadvantage -- Disqualification (La Disqualification Sociale) -- Diswelfare -- Economic Definitions of Poverty -- Economic Distance -- Editorial Board -- Empowerment -- Engel Coefficient -- Entitlement -- Equality -- Equivalence Scales -- European Relative Income Standard of Poverty -- European Union Definition of Poverty -- Exclusion -- Explanations for Poverty -- Extended Poverty Minimum -- Extreme Poverty -- Family Wage -- Famine -- Female Poverty -- Feminization of Poverty -- Food Shortages -- Foster, Greer And Thorbecke (FGT) Index -- Fourth World -- Fuel Poverty -- Gender Division of Labour -- Genetic Explanations -- Gini Coefficient -- Gnp Per Capita -- Head-Count Ratio Or Head-Count Index H -- Health And Poverty -- Homelessness -- Housing -- Human Development -- Human Poverty Index (HPI) -- Human Rights And Poverty -- Impoverishment -- Incentives to Work -- Income -- Income Distribution -- Income Elasticity of the Poverty Line -- Income Inelasticity of Demand -- Income Maintenance -- Income Smoothing -- Indicators -- Indices of Deprivation -- Indigence -- Informal Sector of the Economy -- Insertion -- Institutional Welfare -- Integrated Poverty Line -- Integrated Poverty (Pauvreté́́ Inté́́gré́́e) -- Intergenerational Continuity -- International Aid -- International Fund for Agricultural Development Definitions of Poverty -- Intra-Household Transfers -- Introducing the Glossary -- Inverse Care Law -- Islamic Definitions of Poverty -- Kuznets Inverted U Curve; Kuznets Ratio -- Laeken Indicators -- Landlessness -- Less Eligibility -- Living Standards Measurement Study -- Low Income Cut-Offs -- Luxembourg Income Study; Luxembourg Employment Study -- Malawi Poverty Profile -- Malnutrition -- Marginality -- Maternal Mortality And Morbidity -- Means-Testing -- Migration And Poverty -- Millennium Development Goals -- Minimum Income Standards -- Needs -- Neo-Philanthropy -- New Poor -- Non-Contributory Benefits -- Normative Standards -- Overall Poverty -- Overcrowding -- Participation -- Participatory Research -- Pauperism -- Philanthropy -- Philippines Definition of Poverty -- Poor Law -- Positional Goods -- Poverty Dominance -- Poverty Gap -- Poverty Gap Index (PGI) -- Poverty Line -- Poverty Production -- Poverty Profile -- Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers -- Poverty Trap -- Power -- Precarious Labour -- Precariousness -- Primary And Secondary Poverty -- Problem Families -- Redistribution -- Relative Deprivation -- Relative Poverty -- Residual Welfare -- Rights -- Rural Poverty -- Safety Nets -- Scientific Definitions of Poverty -- Secondary Workers -- Security -- Selectivity -- Sen Index -- Social Assistance -- Social Capital -- Social Distance -- Social Economy -- Social Insurance -- Social Protection -- Social Security -- Solidarity -- Speenhamland System -- Squatting -- Standard Food Basket -- Stigma -- Street Children -- Structural Adjustment -- Structural Dependency -- Structural Poverty -- Sub-Employment -- Subjective Poverty Lines -- Sub-Proletariat -- Subsistence -- Survival Strategies -- Targeting -- Tip-Curves -- Totally Fuzzy And Relative (TFR) Poverty Measures -- UBN-PL Method -- Underclass -- Underemployment -- Unemployment -- United States of America Poverty Line -- Urban Segregation -- Vagrancy -- Voice -- Vulnerability -- Web of Deprivation -- Welfare -- Welfare Housing -- Welfare Rights -- Welfare State -- Workfare -- Workhouse; Workhouse Test -- World Bank Poverty Lines.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Zed Books Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2007
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (246 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 362.503; Poverty -- Dictionaries; Pauvreté -- Dictionnaires anglais; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness; Poverty; Armoede; Electronic books; Dictionaries
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848131095; 1848131097; 9781849727365; 1849727368; 1842778234; 9781842778234; 1281259020; 9781281259028
• Related ISBNs: 9781842778227
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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