Poor Poverty - The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies (Hardcover, New)

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 www.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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The United Nations Series on Development
Release date:	April 2011
First published:	June 2011
Editors:	Jomo Kwame Sundaram • Anisuzzaman (Anis) Chowdhury (Senior Economic Affairs Officer)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84966-417-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment
LSN:	1-84966-417-X
Barcode:	9781849664172

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