Poverty & social deprivation in the mediterranean: trends, policies & welfare prospects in the new millennium. Edited by MARIA PETMESIDOU and CHRISTOS PAPATHEODOROU (Bergen: Zed books, CROP International Studies in Poverty Research, 2007, pp. 414).
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- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 37 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0954-1748
- DOI
- 10.1002/jid.1468
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✦ Synopsis
This book is a compilation of 13 manuscripts by 18 scholars focusing on issues of poverty, deprivation, inequality and social exclusion in the Mediterranean. It comes as a result of the workshop held at Democritus University (Komotini, Greece) in 2003. In addition to the introductory chapter by the editors-which provides an initial overview on poverty phenomena and compares countries around the Mediterranean basin and adjacent areas with respect to their developmental and social indicators-and the concluding chapter by the distinguished professor Peter Townsend, certainly among the most notable authorities in the discipline-who contributed a commentary on the poverty in the Mediterranean region-the book is divided into two parts based on the geographical division of the region.
The first part concentrates on problems of poverty in Mediterranean countries of the European Union (i.e. Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece), the Balkan transition countries (i.e. Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the now former Serbia and Montenegro, FYR Macedonia, Albania, Romania and Bulgaria) and Turkey. The second gives coverage of the so-called MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries bordering the Mediterranean basin. Despite this bilateral division there are at least three quite distinctive regions washed by the Mediterranean Sea. Aspects of poverty and social policy evolution in the Mediterranean EU15 countries are covered in the contributions on poverty and poverty discourses in Italy, anti poverty policies in Portugal related to the guaranteed minimum income and poverty among illegal immigrants in Spain. Transition economies of South-Eastern Europe are covered in chapters on poverty reduction strategies in Albania and countries of the former Yugoslavia, on poor, excluded and transition losers in SE Europe and on dynamics of poverty in Turkey. Problems of poverty in countries of the MENA region are covered in chapters on poverty in