Poverty and Social Deprivation in the Mediterranean Trends, Policies and Welfare Prospects in the New Millennium

by Petmesidou, Maria; Papatheodorou, Christos

• ISBN13: 9781842777572
• ISBN10: 1842777572
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-03
• Publisher: ZED BOOKS

Summary

Leading economists, sociologists and social policy experts document with new and up-to-date empirical material the changing profiles of poverty and social deprivation in Southern Europe, Turkey, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Near East. What emerges is a comparison of social trends shared across the region, as well as the huge diversity of public responses and policies to the challenges of poverty and social inequality.

Author Biography

Maria Petmesidou is Professor of Social Policy at Democritus University of Thrace and Vice-Chair of CROP. Christos Papatheodorou is Assistant Professor of Social Policy at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.

Table of Contents

Tables and figures	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction: comparing poverty phenomena in the Mediterranean area	1	(44)
Maria Petmesidou
Christos Papatheodorou
The southern EU member states, the Balkan transition countries and Turkey	45	(204)
Poverty profiles and trends. How do southern European countries compare with each other?	47	(48)
Christos Papatheodorou
Maria Petmesidou
Poverty and poverty discourses in Italy in comparative perspective	95	(22)
Chiara Saraceno
Poverty and anti-poverty policies in Portugal: the experience of the Guaranteed Minimum Income	117	(25)
Jose Pereirinha
Absolute poverty of illegal immigrants in Spain: a growing problem	142	(24)
Ubaldo Martinez Veiga
Poverty reduction strategies and well-being in Albania and Former Yugoslavia	166	(22)
Gerry Redmond
The poor, excluded and transition losers in the southeastern European transition economies	188	(30)
Ivo Bicanic
Vojmir Franicevic
Dynamics of poverty in Turkey: gender, rural/urban poverty, social networks and reciprocal survival strategies	218	(31)
Sibel Kalaycioglu
The Middle East and North Africa	249	(150)
Poverty in Israel: taking a multi-dimensional approach	251	(31)
Jacques Silber
Michael Sorin
The making of poverty in Palestine	282	(26)
Jamil Hilal
Social stratification obstacles to reducing inequality and alleviating poverty: the case of Lebanon	308	(12)
Sylvia Haladjian-Henriksen
Understanding recent trends in poverty and inequality in the Maghreb (with an emphasis on Morocco)	320	(30)
Mina Baliamoune-Lutz
Poverty evaluation in Algeria: a Logit-probit model applied to a multi-dimensional field survey in the region of Tlemcen	350	(24)
Abderrezak Benhabib
Tahar Ziani
Samir Baha-Eddine Maliki
Concluding commentary: poverty in the Mediterranean region - applying a human rights strategy	374	(25)
Peter Townsend
About the contributors	399	(6)
Index	405