Poverty and Social Deprivation in the Mediterranean : Trends, Policies and Welfare Prospects in the New Millennium by Petmesidou, Maria
ISBN: 9781842777572
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 03 May 2006
Paperback | 432 pages
Description
In the growth of regional identities worldwide, the Mediterranean Basin is emerging as an entity in its own right. This book, a unique collaboration among social scientists around the entire Mediterranean littoral, covers Southern Europe, Turkey, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Near East. Leading economists, sociologists and social policy experts document with new and up-to-date empirical material the changing profiles of poverty and social deprivation. The result is a thought-provoking comparison of the extent, severity and structural causes of poverty and social inequality, and the huge diversity of public responses to the challenges they pose.