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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815253303321

Titolo

Chronic Poverty [[electronic resource] ] : Concepts, Causes and Policy / / edited by A. Shepherd, J. Brunt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

1-349-36800-8

1-137-31670-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 310 p.)

Collana

Rethinking International Development series

Disciplina

327.06

Soggetti

International organization

Economic development

Economic policy

Human geography

Poverty

Social structure

Equality

International Organization

Development Studies

Development Policy

Human Geography

Development Aid

Social Structure, Social Inequality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Based on a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume includes material on inter-generational transmission, the importance of assets and vulnerability, and conflict, and new thinking about the close relationship between social exclusion and adverse incorporation.