Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Editors' Introduction -- 2 Defining Poverty and Identifying the Poor: Reflections on the Australian Experience -- 3 The Dangers of Strong Causal Reasoning: Root Causes, Social Science, and Poverty Policy -- 4 Local Poverty Profiles and Local Anti-Poverty Work -- 5 Relationships Between Health, Income and Poverty Over Time: An Analysis Using BHPS and NCDS Data -- 6 The Commuter's 'Experience' of Poverty: Towards a Post-Industrial Geography of Health -- 7 Examining the Relationship Between Material Conditions, Long-Term Problematic Drug Misuse and Social Exclusion: A New Strategy for Social Inclusion -- 8 Material Deprivation Amongst Ethnic Minority and White Children: The Evidence of the Sample of Anonymised Records -- 9 'Shortchanging' Black and Minority Ethnic Elders -- 10 New Labour, New Poor -- 11 'Spare Some Change for a Bite to Eat?' From Primary Poverty to Social Exclusion: The Role of Nutrition and Food -- 12 Eking Out an Income: Low Income Households and Their Use of Supplementary Resources -- 13 Disabled People, Poverty and Debt: Identity, Strategy and Policy -- 14 Neighbourhood Destabilisation, Youth Crime and the Destabilised School -- 15 'The Invisible Poor': Young People Growing Up in Family Poverty -- 16 The Future of Poverty Research: Panel Session