Bloomsbury Home
Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies
United Nations (Author) , Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Anthology Editor) , Anis Chowdhury (Anthology Editor)
- Open Access
Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies
United Nations (Author) , Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Anthology Editor) , Anis Chowdhury (Anthology Editor)
- Open Access
This product is usually dispatched within 1 week
- Delivery and returns info
-
Free CA delivery on orders $40 or over
Description
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. It is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com.
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.
Product details
| Published | Jun 21 2011 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781849664172 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 27 graphs |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | The United Nations Series on Development |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
ONLINE RESOURCES
Bloomsbury Collections
This book is available on Bloomsbury Collections where your library has access.
OPEN ACCESS
Bloomsbury Open Access
Read and download this book free of charge from Bloomsbury Collections.
Related Titles
