Fighting Poverty

A selection of papers from a multidisciplinary seminar held in June 1998. It covers problems of poverty, uneven distribution of income and unfair distribution of social services in an internationally comparative context. One chapter addresses the concept of poverty itself, developing the notion of inability of self-reliance as an alternative to income insufficiency. Others look at the situation of children, lone parents and the elderly or at the allocation of social services rather than the distribution of income, notably in the area of health care.

ISBN	0754610934	DEWEY edition	DC21
ISBN13	9780754610939 (What's this?)	Pages	348
Publisher	Ashgate Publishing Group	Volumes	001
Imprint	Ashgate Publishing Limited	Weight (grammes)	635
Format	Hardback	Published in	Aldershot
Publication date	24 Jun 1999	Series editor	Ringen, Stein
Writer of introduction	Stein Ringen, Philip R.De Jong	Series title	International Studies on Social Security (FISS)
Writer of preface	Jonathan R. Bradshaw, Emanuel	Height (mm)	159
Library of Congress	HV	Width (mm)	225
DEWEY	362.5	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

	Preface by Jonathan R. Bradshaw and Han Emanuel
	Introduction and overview by Stein Ringen and Philip R. de Jong
Pt. 1	Poverty and income distribution
1.1	"Inability to be self-reliant" as an indicator of U.S. poverty by Robert H. Haveman and Andrew Bershadker	3
1.2	Poverty among children and elders in Europe and North America by Lee Rainwater	33
Pt. 2	Family poverty
2.1	The cost and benefits of children by Bernard M. S. van Praag and Erik J. S. Plug	53
2.2	Relating inputs to outcomes: child poverty and family transfers in comparative perspective by Jonathan R. Bradshaw and Helen Barnes	71
2.3	Framing and reframing social policy paradigms: the case of lone parents by Nadine Lefaucheur and Martin Rein	89
2.4	Work incentives in single parent families by Katja Forssen and Mia Harkovita	117
Pt. 3	Pension reform and disability policy
3.1	Reforming social security: how, why and so what? by Estelle James	149
3.2	Pension policies for ageing populations: labour market policies, funded and mixed systems by Colin Gillion	189
3.3	Social security reform and inter-generational transfers: simulation results for Switzerland by Stefan Felder	233
Pt. 4	Health care policy
4.1	Inequality in health care access and utilization and the potential role for the public sector by Barbara L. Wolfe and David Vanness	251
4.2	Risk adjustment and the equity and efficiency of health care systems by Erik Schokkaert and Carine Van de Voorde	287
4.3	The cost of coercion: an empirical study of the willingness to pay for disability insurance by Leo J. M. Aarts and Philip R. de Jong	313
4.4	Some issues in aged care expenditure in Australia by Ching Y. Choi	339
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