Understanding Poverty
3rd Edition

By Pete Alcock & Jo Campling
December 2006
Pearson Education
ISBN: 1403940932
ISBN 13: 9781403940933
330 Pages, 6 1/8" x 9 1/4"
$67.50 paper original

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"Understanding Poverty" provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the analysis of poverty and social exclusion covering the definition, measurement, distribution and causes of poverty and the policies developed to combat it.

The third edition has been extensively rewritten and expanded to include recent developments in research and policy, while maintaining the successful broad approach of earlier editions. In particular, coverage of poverty dynamics and social exclusion has been expanded, with chapters covering targeted anti-poverty action and the new programmes developed since 1997.

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