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"Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Abdullah, Pari - as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named - is everything. More like a parent than a brother, Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. One day the siblings journey across the desert to Kabul with their father. Pari and Abdullah have no sense of the fate that awaits them there, for the event which unfolds will tear their lives apart; sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand."

"Social problems such as unemployment, poverty and drug addiction are a fact of life in industrialised societies. This book examines the sociology of social problems from interesting and challenging perspectives. It analyses how social problems emerge and are defined as such, who takes responsibility for them, who is threatened by them and how they are managed, solved or ignored. The authors examine and critique existing theories of social problems before developing their own theoretical framework. Their 'theory of residualist conversion of social problems' explains how certain social problems threaten legitimate power structures, so that problems of a social or political nature are transformed into personal problems, and the 'helping professions' are left to intervene. This book will become a key reference on class, inequality and social intervention and an important text for students in sociology and social work courses."

"This paper attempts to analyze the impact of rice price policy changes on the poor. It is shown that contrary to widespread opinion, an increase in the price of rice, particularly through protection policies, will negatively impact the poor. In other words, protective rice price policies are anti-poor. Each 10% increase in the price of rice will lead to a 1% increase in the poor population, in other words more than two million Indonesians will fall below the poverty line as a direct effect of a 10% increase in the price of rice. Rice price increases also contain undesired distribution dimensions: income transfer from populations outside Java to populations in Java, transfer from urban to rural populations, and income transfers from populations in poor provinces to populations in rich provinces, or from the poor to the rich."