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Poverty and social development
— special issue | | Author(s) | Imelda Dodds |
| Journal title | International Social Work, vol 51, number 4, July 2008 |
| Pages | pp 435-572 (whole issue) |
| Source | http://www.isw.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Social work ; Social welfare ; Social policy ; Social economics ; International. |
| Annotation | In this special issue of International Social Work, the guest editor comments on recent statistics that indicate the scale of poverty worldwide, given the price increases for key food staples since the beginning of 2008. Articles review the long term and recent history of poverty alleviation. Examples discussed include: micro credit and microfinancing; and the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and the basic income guarantee. Some articles are country studies of poverty alleviation: Nigeria, India and South Africa. Other articles provide critiques of specific issues: the Millennium Development Goals; the effect of globalisation on the unemployed in South Africa; neo-liberalism; and challenges by the poor to corrupt governance. The role that social workers can and should play in bringing the voice of people living in poverty into policy, planning and interventions is also discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080716207 A |
| Classmark | W6: IG: TY: TM2: W4: 72 |
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