Poor poverty: the impoverishment of analysis, measurement and policies
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Other Authors: Chowdhury, Anis 1954- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Academic, published in association with the United Nations 2011
Edition:[Bloomsbury ed.]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.5040/9781849664530?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The terrible simplifiers : common origins of financial crises and persistent poverty in economic theory and the new '1848 moment' - Erik S. Reinert -- - Growth, development policy, job creation and poverty reduction - Lance Taylor -- - Governance, growth and poverty reduction - Mushtaq H. Khan -- - The emperor's new suit : global poverty estimates reappraised - Sanjay G. Reddy -- - Poverty reduction in China and India : policy implications of recent trends - Jayati Ghosh -- - The bottom of the pyramid strategy for reducing poverty : a failed promise - Aneel Karnani -- - How effective is microfinance as a poverty reduction tool? - Anis Chowdhury -- - Property rights for poverty reduction? - Ruth Meinzen-Dick -- - How cash transfers promote work and economic security - Guy Standing
"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."--Publisher's website
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 230 Seiten)
ISBN:9781849664523
1849664528
9781849664516
184966451X
9781849664172
184966417X
9781849666183
1849666180
DOI:10.5040/9781849664530