Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies

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. It is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com.


Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty rem...