Rethinking Poverty : What makes a good society? /

Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence In our society, a wealthy minority flourish, while around one-fifth experience chronic poverty and many people on middle incomes fear for their futures. Social policy has failed to find answers to these problems and there is now a demand for a new na...

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Main Author: Knight, Barry, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017.
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