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Poverty and social deprivation in the Mediterranean

trends, policies, and welfare prospects in the new millennium

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Introduction: Comparing Poverty Phenomena in the Mediterranean Area / Maria Petmesidou and Christos Papatheodorou . - Part 1: Poverty and Deprivation in the Southern EU Member States, The Balkan Transition Countries and Turkey . - Poverty Profiles and trends. How do Southern European Countries Compare with Each Other? / Christos Papatheodorou and Maria Petmesidou . - Poverty and Poverty Discourses in Italy in Comparative Perspective / Chiara Saraceno . - Poverty and Anti-Poverty Policies in Portugal: The Experience of the Guaranteed Minimum Income / Jose; Pereirinha . - Absolute Poverty of Illegal Immigrants in Spain: A Growing Problem / Ubaldo Martinez Veiga . - Poverty Reduction Strategies and Well-being in Albania and Former Yugoslavia / Gerry Redmond . - The Poor, Excluded and Transition Losers in the South-eastern European Transition Economies / Ivo Bicanic and Vojmir Franicevic . - Dynamics of Poverty in Turkey: Gender, Rural/Urban Poverty, Social Networks and Reciprocal Survival Strategies / Sibel Kalaycioglu . - Part 2: Poverty and Deprivation in the Middle East and North Africa . - Poverty in Israel: Taking a Multidimensional Approach / Jacques Silber And Michael Sorin . - The Making of Poverty in Palestine / Jamil Hilal . - Social Stratification Obstacles to Reducing Inequality and Alleviating Poverty: the Case of Lebanon / Sylvia Haladjian-Henriksen . - Understanding Recent Trends in Poverty and Inequality in the Maghreb (with Emphasis on Morocco) / Mina Baliamoune-Lutz . - Poverty Evaluation in Algeria: A Logit-Probit Model Applied to a Multidimensional Field Survey in the Region of Tlemcen / Abderrezak Benhabib, Tahar Ziani and Samir Baha-Eddine Maliki . - Concluding Commentary. Poverty in the Mediterranean Region: Applying a Human Rights Strategy / Peter Townsend