This volume looks at the three dimensions of social exclusion: economic, social and political. Exclusion is analyzed as a new approach to such issues as the 'new' poverty, precariousness, long-term unemployment, social polarization and lack of citizenship. The book shows how relational and distributional aspects of poverty are interlinked.

1. 'Path-breaking book...highly scholarly in the presentation and analysis of the data...not only valuable from a scholarly point of view but also a practical one, meaning that it can help authorities in the drafting of sensible and humane policies' Professor Colin Mackerras, Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia, Asian Ethnicity

2. 'This is a rare book, and probably the first of its kind. Unique also is the analytical rigour on the lines of empirical evidence-based research, essential especially when the topics are considered sensitive. A case study of the socio-political scene in Kashmir is useful reading' Dr Abusaleh Shariff, Executive Director, US-India Policy Institute, Washington DC; formerly, Member-Secretary, Prime Minister's High-Level Committee on Muslims, Government of India, Hindu

3. 'Bhalla and Luo have presented a vast body of data. The book is worth reading'. Dr Ashok Desai, Consultant Editor, Business World, New Delhi; formerly Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India, Journal of Quantitative Economics

4. 'Path-breaking and highly scholarly work with rigorous analysis examining the incidence of poverty, extent of inequality and access to education, health and other public services among the Muslim minorities'. Dr Quazi Shahabuddin, former Director-General, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka

5. 'Bhalla-Luo well-researched and cogently argued book on the position of minorities in China and India is a very notable contribution indeed. Discussions of the status of minorities in Asia or even in the world that fail to cite it should be regarded as incomplete'. Dr Barry Sautman, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

6. 'This book is unique as being the first comparing poverty and exclusion of ethnic minorities in China and India and can be supposed to become widely cited'. Professor Björn A. Gustafsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Institute for Labour Research (IZA), Bonn, Germany

Autorentext
A.S. BHALLA is an Economic Consultant based in Geneva, Switzerland. He was formerly Fellow of Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge, UK and Special Advisor to the President of International Development Research Centre, Ottawa. Dr Bhalla has also held academic positions at the Universities of Yale, Manchester and Oxford.

FRÉDÉRIC LAPEYRE is Professor at the Institute of Development Studies of the Catholic University of Louvain and member of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. Previously, he was Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies in Geneva, and Fulbright Fellow at Brown University. He has contributed to the work of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization established by the International Labour Organization in February 2002. Prior to that, he worked with the Council of Europe and the ILO in the framework of poverty and social exclusion research and applied programmes.

Inhalt
Defining Exclusion Towards an Analytical and Operational Framework Unemployment, Precarious Jobs and Exclusion Exclusion in Developed Countries The Transition Economies: Central and Eastern Europe The Case of Central Asian Republics Exclusion in Developing Countries Globalization and Exclusion