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Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies

Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies

United Nations
Sundaram, Jomo Kwame
Vos, Rob

Hardcover

Series: The United Nations Development

Business GeneralEconomicsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 184966417X
ISBN13: 9781849664172
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jun 21 2011
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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