Poor Poverty
Subtitle: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781849666183
Subjects: World bank; Poverty, government policy; Economic assistance
Description: "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. 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.