Research Handbook on Poverty and Inequality
Title | Research Handbook on Poverty and Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Udaya R. Wagle |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | 505 |
Release | 2023-05-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1800882300 |
Covering global, comparative, and single-country contexts, this Research Handbook presents wide-ranging, cutting-edge research on poverty and inequality. It maps out international trends in poverty and inequality and explores the key conceptual and operational frameworks, practical analyses, and policy applications and outcomes.
Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty
Title | Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Martha F. Davis |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | 624 |
Release | 2021-03-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1788977513 |
This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.
Handbook on Poverty + Inequality
Title | Handbook on Poverty + Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Haughton |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | 442 |
Release | 2009-03-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780821376140 |
For anyone wanting to learn, in practical terms, how to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty, this Handbook is the place to start. It is designed to be accessible to people with a university-level background in science or the social sciences. It is an invaluable tool for policy analysts, researchers, college students, and government officials working on policy issues related to poverty and inequality.
Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation
Title | Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Silber |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | 777 |
Release | 2023-03-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1800883455 |
Encompassing chapters that address both unidimensional and multidimensional poverty, this timely Research Handbook explores all aspects of poverty and deprivation measurement, not only detailing broad issues but also scrutinising specific domains and aspects of poverty, such as health, energy and housing. Its succinct and highly focussed chapters, written by a diverse range of authors, employ a combination of theoretical and empirical methodologies to offer well-rounded explorations of complex topics.
Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality
Title | Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Elina Kilpi-Jakonen |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | 468 |
Release | 2024-05-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1800888260 |
The Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality is motivated by a core question in social science: to what extent does one’s family background and childhood experience predict success in life? Bringing together experts in their respective fields from across the globe, this innovative Research Handbook provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary account of the rich research on intergenerational inequality, focusing on its origins in sociology and economics. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Research Handbook on Inequalities and Work
Title | Research Handbook on Inequalities and Work PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Forson |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | 593 |
Release | 2024-03-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1800886608 |
This multidisciplinary, international Research Handbook on Inequalities and Work examines disparities within contemporary working life and comes at a critical juncture of socio-historical change. As the world reels from the impact of economic insecurity, the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements, the trans liberation fight, the climate crisis and the rise of Artificial Intelligence, systemic inequalities and their impacts have been thrust into the limelight alongside the ceaseless struggle for social justice. Against this background, the Handbook provides cutting edge research studies that offers unique insight into the international nature of inequalities at work.
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Wiemer Salverda |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 759 |
Release | 2009-02-19 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199231370 |
Comprehensive analysis of economic inequality in developed countries. The contributors give their view on the state-of-the-art scientific research in their fields and add their own visions of future research.