Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Notes on contributors v
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. The human condition is structurally unequal xi
6. International anti-poverty policy: the problems of the Washington Consensus
7. Poverty, social exclusion and social polarisation: the need to construct an international welfare state 3
8. Is rising income inequality inevitable? A critique of the ‘Transatlantic Consensus’ 25
9. The international measurement of poverty and anti-poverty policies 53
10. Anti-poverty policies in rich countries
11. Social policy in the US: workfare and the American low-wage labour market 83
12. A European definition of poverty: the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the member states of the European Union 119
13. Welfare state solidarity and support: the Czech Republic compared with the Netherlands 147
14. Targeting welfare: on the functions and dysfunctions of means testing in social policy 171
15. Anti-poverty policies in poor countries
16. Structural adjustment and mass poverty in Ghana 197
17. Social funds in sub-Saharan Africa: how effective for poverty reduction? 233
18. Urban water supply, sanitation and social policy: lessons from Johannesburg, South Africa 251
19. Round pegs and square holes: mismatches between poverty and housing policy in urban India 271
20. Urban poverty in China: incidence and policy responses 297
21. ‘A new branch can be strengthened by an old branch’: livelihoods and challenges to inter-generational solidarity in South Africa 325
22. Future anti-poverty policies: national and international
23. Human rights, transnational corporations and the World Bank 351
24. Are we really reducing global poverty? 377
25. 1% of €10,000 billion 401
26. Conclusion: constructing an anti-poverty strategy 413
27. Manifesto: international action to defeat poverty 433
28. Index of material and social deprivation: national (UK) and cross-national 437
29. Index 443