This volume presents a variety of papers on issues related to growth, development and poverty prepared by specialists in their particular developme...

There are over a half million people experiencing homelessness in the United States, nearly 160,000 of them are children, and nearly 38,000 are vet...

Low-income families with housing problems are found in every section of the United States. They are located in large cities like Los Angeles and Ne...

At a time when poor Americans are struggling to keep their jobs, homes and basic necessities for their families, it is crucial for the federal gove...

Freedom of poverty is a universal human prerogative and right. Hence the tackling of poverty in developing countries is a social obligation for gov...

Poverty in modern societies has been of utmost importance and always is considered as a global issue. Most economic policies of governments have di...

Poverty estimates—the number and percentage of persons living in poverty—have been of interest to Congress not only to gauge the nation’s economic ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, but poverty remains a difficult policy challenge. The Obama Administration and some in ...

Poverty reduction and inequality are undeniably the buzz issues of the millennium. And where else would one go to understand the dynamics and parad...

Poverty is a social fact of life for billions of people around the world. The developed countries abhor poverty, or seem to, for several reasons. P...

Over the past few decades poverty has emerged as a global problem and a global agenda item in need of action. For that reason, the United Nations m...

In 2011, the U.S. poverty rate was 15.0% -- 46.2 million persons were estimated as having income below the official poverty line. Neither the pover...

This book deals with poverty monitoring and alleviation in East Asia. This is currently an area of great interest to scholars, activists, policy-ma...

This book addresses the state of poverty and its effects on education and development. It is organised into two sections: Poverty, socio-economics,...

The aim of this book is to provide the reader with the broad spectrum of poverty and social policy issues in Central and Eastern Europe, and addres...

This new and timely book deals with the magnitude and the intensity of the poverty in Latin America, Mexico and the state of Nuevo Leon. The enormo...

Poverty alleviation is a common issue facing the majority of the Third World countries. Since the 1970s, the fact that the number of the poor in so...

Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Af...

The origin of rural poverty is complex and multidimensional. Some aspects of this origin include culture, climate, gender, markets, and public poli...

This book takes stock of the diverse and divergent welfare trajectories of post-socialist countries across Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europ...