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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824758303321

Titolo

Poverty, urbanity and social policy : Central and Eastern Europe compared / / Jolanta Aldukaite, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009

ISBN

1-60876-292-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AldukaiteJolanta

Disciplina

362.7

Soggetti

Poverty - Europe, Central

Poverty - Europe, Eastern

Urban policy - Europe, Central

Urban policy - Europe, Eastern

Europe, Central Social policy

Europe, Eastern Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""POVERTY, URBANITY AND SOCIAL POLICY: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE COMPARED""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS""; ""PART I: CHILDREN, POVERTY AND SOCIAL POLICY""; ""POVERTY, URBANITY AND SOCIAL POLICY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND OF WELFARE REFORMS  IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE COMMONWEALTH  OF INDEPENDENT STATES  ""; ""A NEW TYPE OF WELFARE REGIME IN CEE? ""; ""THIS BOOK""; ""CHILDREN, POVERTY AND SOCIAL POLICY ""; ""POVERTY, GENDER AND SOCIAL POLICY""

""URBAN POLICY, RENEWAL AND POVERTY""""SOCIAL POLICY: EAST-WEST COMPARISONS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""EXTREME POVERTY AMONG CHILDREN IN  SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE AND  THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE HERITAGE OF A DECADE OF TRANSITION""; ""DATA AND BASIC ASSUMPTIONS FOR POVERTY MEASUREMENT""; ""LEVELS AND TRENDS IN CHILD POVERTY ""; ""RELATIVE POVERTY AMONG CHILDREN""; ""POVERTY AND HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION"";



""URBAN, RURAL AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN CHILD POVERTY""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""

""RULES FROM ABOVE, VIEWS FROM BELOW: ACCESSING AND USING CHILD HEALTH SERVICES  IN POST-COMMUNIST RURAL ROMANIA""""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION:  SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND RURAL POVERTY""; ""THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH DESIGN""; ""Modelling Child Health Care Decisions ""; ""Data: Study Sites, Respondents and Instruments""; ""FINDINGS: FORMAL STRUCTURES AND INFORMAL NORMS ""; ""Formal Norms: Organizational Structure of the Health Care System and Financing Health Care in Rural Areas ""; ""Human Resources: Medical Staff, Nurses and Local Healers""

""Informal Norms and Procedures: �Under-the-Table� Payments, Enduring Legacies of the Past""""Over-Utilization of Tertiary Care versus Primary Health Care: Real Health Care Choices for the Rural Poor? ""; ""The Politics behind the Health Care System Adversely Affect Delivery ""; ""CONCLUSION: RURAL POVERTY AND HEALTH CARE DELIVERY: THE CONUNDRUM FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PART II: GENDER, SOCIAL POLICY AND POVERTY""; ""GENDER, SOCIAL POLICY AND POVERTY IN CEE""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""GENDER REGIMES""; ""EMPLOYMENT""; ""RECONCILING EMPLOYMENT AND FAMILY""

""INCOME REDISTRIBUTION""""MARKETISATION VS. THE SWEDISH MODEL""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""ON PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR  WORKING PARENTS IN RUSSIA: ALLEVIATING POVERTY AND  CONSTRUCTING GENDER ROLES""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THEORETICAL APPROACH, DATA AND METHOD""; ""PARENTAL LEAVE MODEL""; ""FINANCIAL SUPPORT MODEL""; ""ANALYSIS OF FAMILY POLICY EFFECTS FOR POVERTY RELIEF""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PART III: URBAN POLICY, RENEWAL AND POVERTY""; ""URBAN RENEWAL AND SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATIONS IN POST-SOVIET RIGA:  FROM SOVIET CITY TO â€?WESTERNâ€? METROPOLIS?""

""ABSTRACT""