For example, if poverty is caused by inadequate skills or education, then the solution is skill training or compensatory education. If poverty is caused by discrimination, then the solution is antidiscrimination policies. Remember that the things that cause poverty in case theories explain its distribution in generic theories. Therefore, it is very difficult, maybe impossible, to determine which is correct through direct test. Further indirect evidence later on in the course.
Most people assume case theories are correct.
Poverty scholars study the poor instead of the economy. Blaming the victim. A desire to help the poor.