Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit liefert die Frage, ob Amartya Sens Capability Approach eine geeignete Grundlage für die Definition von Armut in der EU bietet. Neben der praktischen Anwendbarkeit auf EU-Ebene sollen auch die philosophische Struktur und die historischen Wurzeln des Konzepts betrachtet...

The Paraguayan economy did not suffer debt crises in the eighties and had significant growth rates in the second half on the seventies, but poverty remained a problem. Understanding the performance and spatial distribution of poverty and inequality over a period of more than ten years can shed...

Introduction : the color line and the assembly line -- Ford goes to the world, the world comes to Ford -- From the melting pot to the boiling pot : fascism and the factory-state at the River Rouge plant in the 1920s -- Out of the melting pot and into the fire : African Americans and the uneven...