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Early action in the asylum support sector: a scoping review 庇护支持部门的早期行动：范围界定审查

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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2024d000000021

Joanna Pares Hoare, Siân Thomas, Andrew Jolly

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Goodbye to PIP, but hello to what? Disability, social security, devolution and policy change in Scotland 告别 PIP，向什么问好？苏格兰的残疾、社会保障、权力下放和政策变化

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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2023d000000011

Dan Heap

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Sticking plaster support: the Household Support Fund and localised assistance in the UK welfare state 贴膏药式支助：家庭支助基金和英国福利国家的地方化援助

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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2023d000000008

Jed Meers, Kit Colliver, John Hudson, Neil Lunt

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Living in ‘waithood’: perceived impact of socio-economic conditions on quality of life of youth in Zandspruit informal settlement, South Africa 生活在 "waithood "中：社会经济条件对南非赞兹普里特非正规住区青年生活质量的影响

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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2023d000000007

Nothando Ngwenya, Eleanor Ross

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Exploring the disability–poverty nexus in children: a cross-national comparative analysis in Europe 探索儿童残疾与贫困之间的关系：欧洲的跨国比较分析

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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2023d000000006

J. Vinck

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Poor and satisfied? A review of the monetary poverty indicator in the EU 贫穷与满意？欧盟货币贫困指标回顾

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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2023-12-18 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2023d000000003

Mónica Martí, Carmen Ródenas

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Take-up of social security benefits: past, present – and future? 社会保障福利的领取：过去、现在和未来？

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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2023d000000005

Fran Bennett

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Explaining the abolition of the wage stop in the UK 解释英国取消工资停止制度的原因

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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI: 10.1332/175982723x17029202968181

Chris Grover

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In search of nexus triple wins: planning for and evidence of economic transformation, social inclusion and ecological sustainability in Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Dominican Republic 在寻找联系三赢:规划和证据的经济转型，社会包容和生态可持续性在斯里兰卡，泰国和多米尼加共和国

4区社会学

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.1332/175982721x16916833771132

Sam Pickard, Alberto Lemma

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Poverty and child agency in urban China 中国城市贫困与儿童机构

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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.1332/175982721x16914226083222

Lichao Yang, Robert Walker, Guanli Zhang

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