Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies (The United Nations Series on Development) - Hardcover

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9781849664172: Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies (The United Nations Series on Development)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 184966417X ISBN 13: 9781849664172
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

Synopsis

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 1980s, 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 perscriptions. In particular it highlights the World Bank's dollar-a-day measure of poverty and exposes the inadequacies of Bretton Woods-inspired poverty reduction programmes.

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The editors and all contributors are based at the United Nations.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
184966417X
ISBN 13 
9781849664172
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
240

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