书目名称 | Poverty and Social Exclusion around the Mediterranean Sea |
编辑 | Valerie Berenger,Florent Bresson |
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概述 | Contains contributions from well-known academics in the field of income inequality and poverty.Applies a multidimensional poverty approach to countries in the Southern Mediterranean.Helps researchers |
丛书名称 | Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being |
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描述 | .The events taking place in several of South Mediterranean countries since December 2010 show that multiple deprivations may be powerful drivers of political instability. Though improvements of the living conditions have been regularly principal demands along with civil and political liberties in the demonstrations, one of the main striking facts about this so-called “Arab Spring” is that poverty had not been given the same emphasis in southern Mediterranean countries during the last decades as in other areas of the developing and emerging world..Although the growing recognition that poverty is a multidimensional concept, studies of poverty in South Mediterranean countries have often been dominated by a monetary approach. However, there is a growing evidence that it is suitable to go beyond the money-metric measures of poverty and to supplement its results with other approaches that adopt a broader definition of well- being. Though poverty is only one of many causes of this “Arab Spring,” we argue that it is a key feature to understand these historic events and that it is necessary to draw a detailed picture of poverty and social exclusion for each one of these countries. Moreover, |
出版日期 | Book 2013 |
关键词 | Economics; Mediterranean Sea; Poverty; Social Exclusion |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5263-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4899-9958-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4614-5263-8Series ISSN 2364-107X Series E-ISSN 2364-1088 |
issn_series | 2364-107X |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 |