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This book offers a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik’s vast and
important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. While
well known to Spanish-speaking audiences, this volume brings these
works together to offer access for English-speaking audiences for
the first time. The book provides the foundations, application and
empirical examples of Boltvinik’s Integrated Poverty Measurement
Method, which could potentially transform poverty narratives
globally as it has done in Mexico. Deeply critical of available
poverty approaches, it provides a challenging and radically new way
of conceiving and measuring poverty, offering the only
multidimensional poverty measurement method which includes
time-poverty and allows all Aggregate Poverty Measures to be fully
calculated.
Peasants are a majority of the world's poor. Despite this, there
has been little effort to bridge the fields of peasant and poverty
studies. Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-first
Century provides a much-needed critical perspective linking three
central questions: Why has peasantry, unlike other areas of
non-capitalist production, persisted? Why are the vast majority of
peasants poor? And how are these two questions related?
Interweaving contributions from various disciplines, the book
provides a range of responses, offering new theoretical, historical
and policy perspectives on this peasant 'world drama'. Scholars
from both South and North argue that, in order to find the policy
paths required to overcome peasants' misery, we need a seismic
transformation in social thought, to which they make important
contributions. They are convinced that we must build upon the
peasant economy's advantages over agricultural capitalism in
meeting the challenges of feeding the growing world population
while sustaining the environment. Structured to encourage debate
among authors and mutual learning, Peasant Poverty and Persistence
takes the reader on an intellectual journey toward understanding
the peasantry.
Peasants are a majority of the world's poor. Despite this, there
has been little effort to bridge the fields of peasant and poverty
studies. Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-first
Century provides a much-needed critical perspective linking three
central questions: Why has peasantry, unlike other areas of
non-capitalist production, persisted? Why are the vast majority of
peasants poor? And how are these two questions related?
Interweaving contributions from various disciplines, the book
provides a range of responses, offering new theoretical, historical
and policy perspectives on this peasant 'world drama'. Scholars
from both South and North argue that, in order to find the policy
paths required to overcome peasants' misery, we need a seismic
transformation in social thought, to which they make important
contributions. They are convinced that we must build upon the
peasant economy's advantages over agricultural capitalism in
meeting the challenges of feeding the growing world population
while sustaining the environment. Structured to encourage debate
among authors and mutual learning, Peasant Poverty and Persistence
takes the reader on an intellectual journey toward understanding
the peasantry.
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