UID:
kobvindex_HPB1402804554
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 204 pages)
ISBN:
9781447370611
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1447370619
Content:
EPDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. The perpetuation of poverty across generations damages lives. It weakens social cohesion and the economy and undermines environmental sustainability. This book examines why poverty is carried on from one generation to the next and what needs to be done to eradicate it. This book draws on a wide variety of sources and academic disciplines (social sciences, economics, law, community development, neuroscience and developmental psychology) along with the lived experience of people in poverty. Challenging the myths and prejudices about poverty that hinder progress, it calls for a comprehensive approach based on ensuring real equality of opportunity for all. It stresses the need to intervene early to combat child poverty and break the vicious cycles that perpetuate poverty and disadvantage.
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Front Cover -- The Escape From Poverty: Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations -- About the authors -- Introduction -- Part I What is IGPP about? -- one Setting the stage -- Defining inter-generational perpetuation of poverty -- Inter-generational perpetuation of poverty and child poverty -- Inter-generational perpetuation of poverty, mobility and inequality -- two How poverty is perpetuated across generations -- Health -- Poverty, inequality and ill health -- Poverty and children's health
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Impact of poverty on children's future health prospects and IGPP -- Nutrition -- Impact of poverty on child nutrition -- Impact of childhood malnutrition on children's future prospects and IGPP -- Housing and living environment -- Impact of poverty on access to decent housing and safe living environment -- Substandard housing -- Poor neighbourhoods -- Impact of housing conditions and living environment during childhood on children's future prospects and IGPP -- Education -- Impact of poverty on early childhood education and care -- Impact of poverty on primary and secondary education achievements
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Impact of education on children's future prospects and IGPP -- Sport, culture and leisure activities -- Impact of poverty on access to sport, culture and leisure activities -- Impact of access to sport, culture and leisure activities on children's future prospects and IGPP -- Employment opportunities -- Discrimination -- Status-based discrimination -- Poverty-based discrimination -- Intra-household dynamics, gender and sacrifice -- Intra-household dynamics -- Gender -- Sacrifice -- Environmental shocks, climate change and IGPP -- Impact of IGPP on behaviour, aspirations, hope and agency
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Part II Why should we care? -- three Why IGPP is bad for all -- Social solidarity and cohesion undermined -- High economic costs, reduced economic productivity and increased social costs -- Rise in family insecurity -- Efforts to achieve an environmentally sustainable future undermined -- Part III What can be done? -- four Post-market redistribution -- Mobilising resources to combat poverty: the role of taxation schemes -- Widening the tax base to ensure adequate funding for the fight against poverty -- Implementing progressive tax policies
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Progressivity of taxation as a human rights requirement -- Strengthening social protection: the social investment state -- Developing social protection: protecting basic income security -- Promoting inclusive education -- Investing in inclusive health services -- Investing in decent housing and safe living environments -- Investing in access to sport, culture and leisure activities -- five Towards an inclusive economy -- A jobs-rich model of development: making the right to work a reality -- A basic income for young adults
Language:
English
URL:
Bristol University Press
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