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The ‘just about managing’. ‘Hardworking families’. ‘Alarm-clock Britain’. In recent years British political discourse has been filled with these slogans, as politicians claim to speak on behalf of families who are in work, but struggling to get by. This book allows us to hear from some of these families directly. At a time when the impact of austerity is more relevant than ever, Just Managing? cuts through the debates and sloganeering to give some of the real people behind the headlines and statistics a chance to tell their stories. It tracks the lives of thirty working families in Liverpool over one year, as they struggle to manage on incomes at or around the National Minimum Wage. Their accounts are placed within the economic and political context that has shaped their experiences and that of millions of other working families across the country. This book is required reading for anyone seeking to understand what life is like at the sharp end of ‘austerity Britain'.

Income distribution --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- National Minimun Wage --- low income --- Liverpool --- austerity --- Britain --- British politics --- Statistics

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L'esperienza della municipalizzazione delle case popolari nell'Italia giolittiana permette di focalizzare gli estremi di una parabola che approdò al riconoscimento delle problematiche abitative quale questione di interesse collettivo. La genesi dell'housing sociale si disperde pertanto nel complesso di iniziative che è stato possibile ricostruire nel supporto di uno straordinario corpus di documenti d'archivio, indagato nell'egida dei provvedimenti legislativi in materia di case popolari e municipalizzazione varati nel corso del 1903, vero e proprio termine spartiacque per gli sviluppi di tale vicenda. Sullo sfondo del combinato disposto scaturito dalle due normative si dipana infatti il filo rosso dell'intera narrazione, un viaggio che si muove attraverso frammenti di esperienze locali, riflessi di microstoria aggregati in un articolato mosaico fondato sul collante della municipalizzazione, lasciando trasparire il preludio di una fase di rottura in grado di liberare i prodromi dell'odierno welfare state.

Public housing --- Business & Economics --- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use --- History --- Law and legislation --- Government housing projects --- Social housing --- Low-income housing --- edilizia popolare --- storia italiana --- giolitti

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"Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as they negotiate an over-extended health system unequipped to respond to the disease."--

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Food insecurity is a complex ‘wicked’ problem that results from a range of unstable and uncertain physical, social, cultural and economic factors that limits access to nutritious food. Globally, 800 million people are under-nourished, and around 2 billion are overweight/obese or have micronutrient deficiency. These populations are largely positioned in developing countries where disease burden is high and impacts health budgets and productivity. Similarly developed countries, cities and neighbourhoods are experiencing a greater emergence of vulnerable populations. This is in part explained by the change in the food production and manufacturing, the retraction in economic climates, the increase in food price, and in some regions reduced food availability and access.Vulnerable groups include but are not limited to migrant populations, Indigenous people, elderly, pregnant women, those with disability, homeless, young children and youth. Poor nutrition at significant periods of growth and development and during life impact long term health outcomes increasing non-communicable disease prevalence, health cost and reducing economic productivity.

self-esteem --- n/a --- lunch --- energy density --- school performance --- refugees --- dietary patterns --- consumption of fruits and vegetables --- food pantry --- Malaysia --- vulnerable groups --- village chickens --- Social Cognitive Theory --- nutrition education --- Student Assistance Program --- low-income undergraduate students --- children --- abdominal obesity --- livestock --- self-efficacy --- emergency food assistance --- food insecurity --- obesity --- knowledge --- Obesity --- rural populations --- Tanzania --- low-income population --- BMI-for-age --- in-depth interview --- fruit and vegetables --- metabolic syndrome --- malnutrition --- popular restaurant --- nutrition --- school intervention --- rural children --- double burden of malnutrition --- women --- co-design --- challenges --- fat mass --- adolescent health --- welfare home --- training --- adiposity markers --- Orang Asli --- sub-Saharan Africa --- charitable food sector --- food literacy --- place-based --- feeding practices --- child stunting --- dietary quality --- public health --- nutrition security --- socioeconomics --- undernutrition --- primary health care --- HFIAS --- resource-poor settings --- food assistance --- Palestine --- Lebanon --- tertiary education --- infant feeding --- refugee --- animal-source food --- pediatrics --- food security --- low-income --- breastfeeding --- food poverty --- body image --- Indonesia

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Poverty remains one of the greatest problems of our time, causing starvation and humiliation in poor countries and contributing to problems of conflict, migration and environmental degradation effecting also richer countries. This study provides a systematical analysis of today’s donor strategies for development cooperation, which unite around the goal of poverty reduction. The most recent strategies of the World Bank and the German, British and Swedish official development agencies are compared and evaluated. Their broad consensus on goals and conceptual elements is comprehensively presented. Differences in accentuations regarding beneficiaries and implementation methods are highlighted. An empirical study of the poverty focus in project evaluations of the German Financial Cooperation rounds off the analysis by exemplarily pointing at the practical implications of the new strategies.

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