Identifying the Poor

Ward, M.

ISBN 10: 9051994516 / ISBN 13: 9789051994513

Editore: IOS Press, 1999

Hardcover. Very clean; strong binding, no marks or highlighting. Appears to be unread. Thanks for looking! Codice articolo 080824026

Riassunto:

Poverty has long been recognized as a socio-economic problem. Objective analyses of a quantitative nature are a crucial prerequisite to understanding the nature of poverty, where social and personal sentiments play a role of their own, next to political considerations. One of the first comprehensive attempts to assess the nature of poverty with a view to alleviate its consequences was a three volume series by Sir Frederick Morton Eden in 1779 titled The State of the Poor. Next to an evaluation of Morton Eden's significance then and now, this book discusses how perceptions of poverty have developed since that time. A proper understanding of causes of poverty, indispensable for developing policies to alleviate it, requires a quantitative grasp on the subject that only statistics can provide. The present book provides eloquent proofs of this necessity, not from a single, static point of view, but from a variety of legitimate, but differing perspectives.

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Titolo: Identifying the Poor
Casa editrice: IOS Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: hardcover
Condizione: New