Poor Poverty : The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies
This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980's, poverty remains stub...
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| Superior document: | The United Nations Series on Development |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The United Nations Series on Development
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980's, poverty remains stubbornly high in many parts of the world. This collection argues that the mainstream perspectives on poverty and deprivation have contributed to considerable distortion and misunderstanding and that is not unrelated to ineffectual policy prescriptions. In particular it highlights the World Bank's dollar-a-day |
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| ISBN: | 9210555724 1283195070 9786613195074 184966451X 1849664528 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |