Poor New Zealand
Publisher: Platform Publishing
Published: 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780908725021
Description: "Thirty percent of the population -- about a million people -- live in poverty ... The statistics of a third world country? No, these are facts of life in New Zealand, God's own country, home of the welfare state. Through careful research and their wide ranging direct experience, Charles Waldegrave and Rosalyn Coventry give and authoritative account of an appalling problem which is everywhere around us, yet which few of us care to acknowledge. Things need not be this way. The authors show that poverty can be eliminated, without desroying our traditional economic directions ..." -- Back cover.