This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "New Water Regimes" that was published in Resources

Volume 24 offers fresh theoretical and methodological insights into the key issues in the field of economic inequality.

This volume explores the nature and scope of the problem of poverty, examines the political responses to poverty (examples of different countries); and investigates the existence and use of various definitions and thresholds applied to poverty in policy making . It also examines the variations within income transfers, i.e. social benefits designed to prevent or alleviate poverty and material hardship and explores the effectiveness of benefit schemes in reducing poverty.--Publisher's description.