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2015
Professor Michael Porter argues for a new economic model of inner-city revitalization. He favors private, for-profit initiatives based on economic self-interest, rather than artificial inducements, charity, and government mandates. Such an approach will only work, Porter argues, if it takes advantage of true competitive advantages of the inner city. If
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Professor Michael Porter argues for a new economic model of inner-city revitalization. He favors private, for-profit initiatives based on economic self-interest, rather than artificial inducements, charity, and government mandates. Such an approach will only work, Porter argues, if it takes advantage of true competitive advantages of the inner city. If
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Understanding Social Exclusion
2019The first chapter addresses the concept of social exclusion, focusing on the main definitions within the international debate and its central elements. This chapter refers to social inclusion as a goal, process and outcome and underlines its different dimensions, differentiating it from poverty.
Alessia Toldo, Alfredo Mela
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Social Exclusion and Social Care
2001So far in this book we have explored how older people are cared for in six European countries, discussing similarities and differences at the level of both care systems and individuals. Each of the countries presents a different national context.
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Social Exclusion and Offending [PDF]
, 2011 Social exclusion is costly for both its victims and for mainstream society which may experience negative externalities from excluded or marginal groups and contribute resources to support them. Offending behaviour (the principal area of interest in this paper) is costly to its victims and to society and is closely intertwined with exclusion.
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Understanding social exclusion and social inclusion
Municipal Engineer, 2003This paper seeks to demonstrate the importance of a clear understanding of the concepts of social exclusion and social inclusion, not only for policy makers, but for all practitioners tasked with the implementation of strategies to reduce/increase each, respectively.
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Social Exclusion and Knowledge
Current Sociology, 2002This article offers a critical examination of the repercussions of the different ways in which the poor have been defined and positioned by the governments and the international organizations that fund them, resulting in the application of rigid and homogeneous categories, as well as wrong and inconsistent policies for fighting poverty.
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1999
Although the concept of poverty and research into poverty has a long tradition in the UK this is not the case in other European countries, where poverty research is much more recent. However, it is the term ‘social exclusion’ which is now much more widely used, initially in continental European countries but now also in the UK.
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Although the concept of poverty and research into poverty has a long tradition in the UK this is not the case in other European countries, where poverty research is much more recent. However, it is the term ‘social exclusion’ which is now much more widely used, initially in continental European countries but now also in the UK.
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Deprivation and Social Exclusion
1997The attempts to define poverty discussed in Chapter 5 all resort to use of a weekly budget or a fixed point on the income scale. As we shall see in Chapter 8, such a simple expression of poverty is essential if we are to measure its extent in a particular society at a particular time. However what this is in effect doing is basing the conception of the
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