The work carried out under the present contract focused on four areas: 1. Documentation of the state of the art concerning child poverty and social exclusion 2. Networking 3. Fact finding missions 4. Analysis of policies to combat child poverty and identification of successful policy packages 1. Documentation of the state of the art concerning child poverty and social exclusion The documentatio...

In the context of deepening poverty, growing inequalities within and between countries and the uneven impacts of economic and financial globalisation, we need to consider how social development, underwritten by a people-centred approach, can influence existing and emerging regional processes and change the regional social policy agenda. Moreover, there is a new urgency given the scale of povert...

Urban Poverty: a multidimensional concept; Educational Package I Poverty: monster with many heads; income poverty, poor living conditions, social and political exclusion. Defining urban poverty is the basic requirement for conceptual thinking and relevant policy discussions, especially because poverty is not that easily defined and well understood. A generally-agreed thinking on poverty could b...

“Social exclusion” has increasingly taken over from terms like poverty and deprivation as a term for describing social division. The paper considers social exclusion, and the related term “social inclusion”, and its implications for the public library. It reviews the development of the concept of social exclusion and assesses its strengths and weaknesses as a way of describing social division. ...