Poverty and Exclusion in North and South : Essays on Social Policy and Global Poverty Reduction (Priorities for Development Economics)

Over the past decade there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialised countries of the "North", while many of the developing countries of the "South" have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of North and South, and that these warrant further investigation and analysis.