This book examines the ways in which poverty in the Global South is created and
reproduced. More than a billion people, one in five, live on less than US $1 a day. Poverty is …

This paper studied the profile of rural poverty in Nigeria, what accounts for it, and what
specific measures can be taken to reduce it, using the 1996 National Consumer Survey data …

This article examines the formation of the Saudi middle class using econometric models and
a national survey of household budget and consumption data from 44,000 households in …

This book looks at two aspects of Islamic activity in the Middle East and North Africa, the
development of social capital and the provision of welfare services, within the context of …

This book is a welcome and timely endeavour to the study of Globalisation, which as we
know is the currency of contemporary economic and political debates. It is very broad in …

This article examines the definition of poverty and the evidential base for the claims that the
region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has historically low levels of poverty and …

In this publication, we draw some optimistic, socio-liberal conclusions about Islam in the
world system. Countering some alarmist voices in the West, neither migration nor Muslim …

This paper identifies and decomposes sources that explain household economic well‐being
in Cameroon. It uses the 2001 and 2007 Cameroon Household Consumption Surveys …

With all the talk in Europe about" Islam" and" Muslim culture" it is surprising how little hard-
core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of" Muslim culture" with patterns of …

The lack of social security supports and labor market laws in informal employment has
strengthened the expectation that poverty in a family in which the head of the household …