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Contents: Introduction -- Part I : General reviews -- Prospects for equitable social prevention in a globalized world -- Globalization and social policy: Thoughts for international development cooperation -- Risk and vulnerability: The forward -looking role of social protection in a globalized world -- Part II : Insecurity ,risk and social capital -- Governance and the common man: embedding social policy in the search for security -- Economic growth and social capital -- Defining the limits of a discourse : 'social capital' in Africa Part III : The globalization of poverty discourse -- Who gains and who loses from globalization?New challenges for anti-poverty action North and south -- Food and poverty: current global challenges? Part IV : Anti- poverty instruments in North and South -- Microfinance ,poverty and social exclusion in North and South -- Social capital and micro-enterprise development:microfinance and urban regeneration in eastern Europe -- Equity versus debt in Urban regeneration -- Bibliography -- Index.