Poverty and Social Deprivation in the Mediterranean: Trends, Policies and Welfare Prospects in the New Millennium: International Studies in Poverty Research

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List of Contributors

1. Introduction: Comparing Poverty Phenomena in the Mediterranean Area
Maria Petmesidou and Christos Papatheodorou

Part 1: The Southern EU Member states, the Balkan transition countries and Turkey

2. Poverty Profiles and trends. How do Southern European Countries Compare with Each Other?
Christos Papatheodorou and Maria Petmesidou

3. Poverty and Poverty Discourses in Italy in Comparative Perspective
Chiara Saraceno

4. Poverty and Anti-Poverty Policies in Portugal: The Experience of the Guaranteed Minimum Income
Jose Pereirinha

5. Absolute Poverty of Illegal Immigrants in Spain: A Growing Problem
Ubaldo Martinez Veiga

6. Poverty Reduction Strategies and Well-being in Albania and Former Yugoslavia
Gerry Redmond

7. The Poor, Excluded and Transition Losers in the South-eastern European Transition Economies
Ivo Bicanic and Vojmir Franicevic

8. Dynamics of Poverty in Turkey: Gender, Rural/Urban Poverty, Social Networks and Reciprocal Survival Strategies
Sibel Kalaycioglu

Part 2: The Middle East and North Africa

9. Poverty in Israel: Taking a Multidimensional Approach
Jacques Silber And Michael Sorin

10. The Making of Poverty in Palestine
Jamil Hilal

11. Social Stratification Obstacles to Reducing Inequality and Alleviating Poverty: the Case of Lebanon
Sylvia Haladjian-Henriksen

12. Understanding Recent Trends in Poverty and Inequality in the Maghreb (with Emphasis on Morocco)
Mina Baliamoune-Lutz

13. Poverty Evaluation in Algeria: A Logit-Probit Model Applied to a Multidimensional Field Survey in the Region of Tlemcen
Abderrezak Benhabib, Tahar Ziani and Samir Baha-Eddine MalikiI

14. Concluding Commentary. Poverty in the Mediterranean Region: Applying a Human Rights Strategy
Peter Townsend