Details

Subject(s)

• Poverty—Encyclopedias [Browse]
• Poor—Encyclopedias [Browse]

Editor

• Odekon, Mehmet [Browse]

Series

Gale eBooks

Summary note

'The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty', second edition addresses the persistence of poverty across the globe while updating and expanding the landmark work, 'Encyclopedia of World Poverty', originally published in 2006 prior to the economic calamities of 2008. There are 775 evaluated and updated and 175 entirely new entries, as well as an updated chronology, resource guide, glossary, and thorough new index.

Notes

Earlier edition published in 2006 as: Encyclopedia of world poverty.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Half Title; Publisher Note; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Reader's Guide; About the Editor; List of Contributors; Title; A; Aboriginal Health; Absenteeism and Child Poverty; Access-to-Enterprise Zones; Achievement Gap; Adams, John (Administration); Adams, John Quincy (Administration); Adjustment Programs; Adolescent Girls Initiative; Adult Literacy Programs; Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare); Afghanistan; Africa Faith and Justice Network; African Development Foundation; Age Discrimination; Agricultural Technology; Agriculture; Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage
• Aid to Families with Dependent ChildrenAlabama; Alaska; Albania; Algeria; Alliance for Excellent Education; Alliance for International Women's Rights; Almshouses; American Friends Service Committee; American Graduate; American Samoa; Ancient Thought; Andorra; Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Antipoverty Programs, Asset-Based; Antipoverty Programs, Community-Based; Antipoverty Programs, Means-Tested Government; Antipoverty Programs, Rural; Antipoverty Programs, Urban; Apartheid; Aquinas, Thomas; Arab Definition of Poverty; Area Deprivation; Argentina; Arizona; Arkansas; Armenia
• Arthur, Chester (Administration)Australia; Australian Definition of Poverty; Austria; Axiom of Monotonicity and Axiom of Transfers; Azerbaijan; B; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Bankruptcy; Barbados; Basic Income; Basic Needs; Basic Security; Belarus; Belgium; Belize; Bellamy, Edward; Benin; Beveridge Scheme; Bhutan; Big Brothers Big Sisters; Bioversity International; Black, Hugo L.; Bolivia; Bolsa Familia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Brandeis, Louis D.; Brazil; Brazilian Definition of Poverty; Brotherhood of St. Laurence; Brunei Darussalam; Bryan, William Jennings
• Buchanan, James (Administration)Bulgaria; Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Bush, George H. W. (Administration); Bush, George W. (Administration); C; California; Calvin, John; Cambodia; Cameroon; Campus Compact; Canada; Cape Verde; Capitalism; CARE; Carnegie, Andrew; Carter, Jimmy (Administration); Cash and In-Kind Transfers; Catastrophic Health Expenditure; Catholic Campaign for Human Development; Center for American Progress; Center for the Study of Urban Poverty; Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Center on Hunger and Poverty; Central African Republic; Chad
• Chained Consumer Price Indexcharity: water; Charity Organization Society; Child Care; Child Immunization and Vaccination; Child Malnutrition; Child Mortality; Child Soldiers; Child Trafficking; Child Welfare League of America; ChildLine; Childreach International; Children; Children Out of School; Children's Aid Society; Children's Defense Fund; Children's Hunger Relief; Chile; China; Chinese Definition of Poverty; Christian Antipoverty Campaigns; Christian Community Health Fellowship; Christmas Seals; Church of England; Church World Service; Civic Society; Class Analysis of Poverty
• Class Structure

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Other title(s)

• Encyclopedia of world poverty
• World poverty

ISBN

• 9781506301280
• 1506301282
• 9781785397370
• 1785397370
• 9781506336404
• 150633640X
• 9781483345710
• 1483345718
• 9781483345727
• 1483345726

OCLC

919582408

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