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| Other authors / contributors: | Jomo K. S. (Jomo Kwame Sundaram)
Chowdhury, Anis, 1954-
United Nations.
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| ISBN: | 9781849664523
1849664528
9781849664516
184966451X
9781849664172
184966417X
9781849666183
1849666180
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "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
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| Other form: | Print version: Poor Poverty. Bloomsbury USA Academic 2011 9781849664172
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