Poverty and ethnicity in the UK /

Poverty and ethnicity in the UK / / Lucinda Platt.

Poverty rates vary dramatically across the UK's ethnic groups - an issue of concern both for poverty-reduction policies and for social justice. This book provides a comprehensive account of these variations and explores the reasons why they occur. Drawing on a wealth of research conducted since...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
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Platt, Lucinda,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Concepts and definitions
  • Ethnicity and ethnic groups
  • Poverty and deprivation
  • The facts of poverty
  • Poverty and ethnicity: the evidence
  • Explaining ethnic differences in poverty
  • Income from employment
  • Family structure and kinship
  • Access to and use of social security benefits
  • Implications
  • Implications for policy
  • Implications for research
  • References
  • Index

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