Poor Poverty

The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies

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This book 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 publication 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 measure of poverty and exposes the inadequacies of Bretton Woods-inspired poverty reduction programmes.

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Agency/Department
UN/Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Print ISBN
9781849666183
PDF ISBN
9789210555722
Print Publication Date
PDF Publication Date
Page Count
240
Print Sales Number
11.IV.2
Series Title
United Nations Series on Development

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