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Poverty and Inequality in the Era of Structural Reforms: The Case of Bolivia

Fueled by the ongoing debate about the distributive effects of the Washington Consensus, the dynamics of poverty and inequality ...

Poverty, Inequality and Development

Traditionally, there have been two strands in the analysis of poverty, inequality and development – a micro strand that ...

Power, Freedom, and Voting

Power, Freedom, and Voting is an interdisciplinary book that presents a comprehensive insight into current research by economists, ...

Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption

This book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts ...

Primary and Secondary Education During Covid-19

One of the first academic comparative studies of the educational impact of the pandemic, the book explains how the interruption ...

Promoting Active Citizenship

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private ...

Quality of Life in Ireland : Social Impact of Economic Boom

The Irish economic boom has caused the economy in Ireland to roar ahead, but what has it done to Irish society? Some see ...

Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights Global Inequities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Action

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally ...

Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

This book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic ...

Social Determinants of Health in Non-communicable Diseases Case Studies from Japan

This book is the first compilation that reviews a wide range of social determinants of health (SDHs) for non-communicable ...

Social Dynamics in Swiss Society

Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel to zoom in on continuity and change in the life course, this open ...

Social Inequality, Childhood and the Media

This book presents a qualitative longitudinal panel-study on child and adolescent socialisation in socially disadvantaged ...

Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People Key Factors for the Success and Continuity of Schooling Levels

This book provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European ...

Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes

Education systems generally aim to narrow the achievement gap between low- and high-SES students and to improve the performance ...

Teaching Tolerance in a Globalized World

This open access thematic report identifies factors and conditions that can help schools and education systems promote tolerance ...

Teaching for Excellence and Equity

This book examines the interrelationship of national policy, teacher effectiveness, and student outcomes with a specific ...

The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education

This book is discusses the re-imagining of the higher education sector. It exposes problems that relate to the way that universities ...

The Future of Digital Work: The Challenge of Inequality : IFIP WG 8.2, 9.1, 9.4 Joint Working Conference, IFIPJWC 2020, Hyderabad, India, December 10–11, 2020, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.2, 9.1, 9.4 Joint Working Conference on the Future of Digital ...

The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary

This authoritative analysis of anti-liberal Hungary’s 21st century twist on “Kinder, Küche, Kirche” exposes its exploitation ...

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

This handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary genre-spanning view ...

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