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  • Social Assistance in Developing Countries

    by Armando Barrientos ...
    The rapid spread of large-scale and innovative social transfers in the developing world has made a key contribution to the significant reduction in global poverty over the last decade. Explaining how flagship anti-poverty programmes emerged, this book provides the first comprehensive account of the global growth of social assistance transfers in developing countries. Armando Barrientos begins by ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Pension Reform in Latin America

    by Armando Barrientos ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1998, this volume initially focused on Chilean pension reform, on which the author has published elsewhere, before moving onto Latin America more widely, with coverage extending from 1990 to the reform in Costa Rica and the Mexican pension reform in 1997. It emerged in the wake of reforms including in Peru (1993), Argentina and Colombia (1994) and Uruguay (1996). Particular ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Did the Millennium Development Goals Work?

    Meeting Future Challenges with Past Lessons

    by Alireza Saniei-Pour, Jason McFarlane, Andrew Sheng, Kelly Levin, Brian Lipinski, Betsy Otto, Richard Waite, Tim Searchinger, Craig Hanson, Sofia Samper0, Mohamed Evren Tok1, Badye Essid2, Manmohan Agarwal3, Olabanji Akinola5, Saleh Ahmed6, Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran7, Laura Agosta8, Sarah Hoesch9, Bineta Diop0, Joshua Castellino1, Sarah Bradshaw2, Deborah Levison3, Ragui Assaad4, Jeff Grischow5, Cristina D'Alessandro6, Samuel Vincent7, Clare Lockhart8, Armando Barrientos9 ...
    With the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) behind us, this book asks did they work? And what happens next? Arguing that to effectively look forward, we must first look back, the editors of this insightful book gather leading scholars and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and regions to provide an in-depth exploration of the MDG project and its impact.Contributors use ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The New Dynamics of Ageing Volume 1

    by Joao Saboia, Constantinos Maganaris, Clare Lawton, Eleanor van den Heuvel, Catherine Hagan Hennessy, Amanda Crummett, Jane Elliott, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Michael Murphy, Penny Vera-Sanso, Julia Mase, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock, Valerie Moller, Armando Barrientos, Leonie Kellaher, Russ Marshall, Colette Nicolle, Martin Maguire, John Percival, Sheila Peace, Jane McCann, Jatinder Sandhu, Wendy Olphert, Leela Damodaran, Robin Means, Michael Murray, Andrea Creech, Susan Hallam, Ann Bowling, Rachel Cooper, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Catharine Gale, Rebecca Hardy, Diana Kuh, Cheryl Haslam, Bo Hu, Raphael Wittenberg, Ruth Hancock ...
    Series series The New Dynamics of Ageing
    This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 2, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. It reports the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the influence shaping the changing nature of ageing and its consequences for individuals and society.This book concentrates on three major themes: active ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Social Protection in Latin America

    Causality, Stratification and Outcomes

    by Armando Barrientos ...
    Series series Global Dynamics of Social Policy
    This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organised in three groups. The earlier chapters discuss in turn appropriate methods, an analytical framework, and core institutions. The book advocates a causal inference approach to the study of the institutions that have dominated social protection in the ... Read more

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  • Equity Policies in Global Higher Education

    Reducing Inequality and Increasing Participation and Attainment

    Edited by Orlanda Tavares, Carla Sá, Cristina Sin, Alberto Amaral ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation of students from deprived backgrounds, socioeconomic inequalities persist in access to the most prestigious institutions and programmes. Privileged students benefit from a ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Poverty

    History, Measurement, and Policy

    by Martin Ravallion ...
    There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

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  • The International Migration Of Women

    by World Bank; Schiff Maurice; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja ...
    The current share of women in the world's international migrant population is close to one half. Despite the great number of female migrants and their importance for the development agenda in countries of origin, there has until recently been a striking lack of gender analysis in the economic literature on international migration and development. This volume makes a valuable contribution in this ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Poverty

    An International Glossary

    Edited by Paul Spicker, Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón, David Gordon ...
    Series series International Studies in Poverty Research
    This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional and complex nature of this social condition. This revised edition includes a range of new entries to keep pace with an expanding ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Studying Human Rights

    by Todd Landman ...
    This book draws on key theories and methods from the social sciences to develop a framework for the systematic study of human rights problems. It argues that solid empirical analysis of human rights problems rests on examining the observable practices from state and non-state actors that constitute human rights violations to provide plausible explanations for their occurrence and provide deeper ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class

    by Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Julian Messina, Jamele Rigolini, Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva, Maria Ana Lugo, Renos Vakis, Luis Felipe Ló, Renos pez-Calva, Vakis ...
    Series series Latin America and Caribbean Studies
    After decades of stagnation, the size of Latin America's middle class recently expanded to the point where, for the first time ever, the number of people in poverty is equal to the size of the middle class. This volume investigates the nature, determinants and possible consequences of this remarkable process of social transformation. We propose an original definition of the middle class, tailor ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America

    Edited by Pedro López-Roldán, Sandra Fachelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the ... Read more

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