This paper highlights the urban development in India and implications for low income households living in informal settlements or slums. The paper is divided into four sections. Section 1 describes urban development pattern in India. Section 2 presents a summary of policies since 1950 which have...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- On edge : (un)employment and the bad reputation of Limoges's outer city -- Longing for yesterday : the social uses of nostalgia in a climate of job insecurity -- Jobs for at-risk youth : state intervention, solidarite, and the fight against exclusion -- Burning...

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...

This volume addresses the origin and effects of advantage and disadvantage from a global and UK perspective, and provides an overview of of a variety of conceptual frameworks and a spectrum of social inequalities, processes, and divisions.

Der Band beleuchtet die individuelle Wahrnehmung und Bearbeitung von Armutslagen. Er analysiert die Umstände, denen Wohlfahrtsleistungsempfänger seit der Neuausrichtung der Sozialpolitik ausgesetzt sind. Im Zuge der Neuausrichtung der Sozialpolitik in Deutschland entlang des Paradigmas des...

The inclusion of the elderly in community life is a major factor in achieving an age-friendly city. However, there has been little research investigating the constraints preventing the elderly's interaction with society. With that in mind, this paper is pioneering the investigation of such...

Talk : nothing to be done / Tom Boland -- Dialogue : focus groups with young and mature unemployed / Jennifer Yeager and Jonathan Culleton -- City : redundant workers, forgotten citizens? The case of Waterford Crystal / Josh Lalor -- Place : graceful living : the experience of unemployment and...