The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily to increase the food purchasing...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily to increase the food purchasing...

Access to adequate food and nutrition is a fundamental human right. However, a significant population worldwide presently suffers from malnutrition...

This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent ...

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant provides federal grants to states for a wide range of benefits, services, and activi...

In these Gasson Lectures, Frank Brennan addresses various contested contemporary issues such as church-state relations, physician assisted suicide ...

In these Gasson Lectures, Frank Brennan addresses various contested contemporary issues such as church-state relations, physician assisted suicide ...

The idea of a democratic developmental state forms part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated o...

This book brings forth debates on the production and eradication of poverty from experiences in the global South. It collects a set of innovative a...

Trade liberalisation reforms in Bangladesh have been accompanied by impressive economic growth and substantial reductions in poverty. Nevertheless,...

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 years, Congress has authorised and the federal government has administered programs to provide food to the hungry and to other vulnerable ...

Farm businesses' debt-use decisions can affect their growth and survival, as well as the economic vitality of farm-dependent rural communities. Thu...

For almost six decades, the United States has played a leading role in global efforts to alleviate hunger and malnutrition and to enhance world foo...

The most recent recession led to an unprecedented increase in the number of those unemployed for more than 26 weeks (the long-term unemployed). As ...

This book opens with a review of urban poverty in Bangladesh, analysing socioeconomic aspects of the marginal poor under three headings: migration ...

The poverty rate increased markedly over the past decade, in part a response to two economic recessions. A strong economy during most of the 1990s ...

This is a collection of essays and poetry addressing the Australian government’s asylum seeker policy. The aims of the book are several: to provide...

This is a collection of essays and poetry addressing the Australian government’s asylum seeker policy. The aims of the book are several: to provide...

By the late 19th century and the early 20th century, there were at least nineteen large and small areas, streets or neighbourhoods that were declar...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides supplemental nutrition-rich foods and nutrition educatio...

Win-Win Anti-Poverty Policy - Handbook of Win-Win Economics, Volume 3

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...