Poverty reduction has become a top priority for international development; new norms, facts
and findings on global poverty are gradually becoming part of the established economic …

Poverty reduction is now, and quite properly should remain, the primary objective of the
World Bank. But, when the World Bank dreams of a world free of poverty-what should it be …

This article investigates recent claims—made principally by the World Bank—that world
poverty is declining, and that this decline is due to countries adopting “pro-globalisation” …

Poverty has plagued humanity for generations. Even today roughly 1.3 billion people in
developing countries live in abject poverty as measured by the international income …

summary World poverty is an important book offering fresh insights into how to tackle poverty
worldwide. With contributions from leading scholars in the field both internationally and in …

World poverty is an important book offering fresh insights into how to tackle poverty
worldwide. With contributions from leading scholars in the field both internationally and in …

This book has three main objectives. First, it presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the
problem of global poverty. Despite common rhetoric about the benefits of interdisciplinary …

Three main changes in thinking about poverty have gained increasing currency over the
past decade. First, the concept of poverty has broadened, with increasing attention to issues …

World Poverty provides an authoritative and balanced examination of the many facets of
world poverty and the policy issues surrounding it. World Poverty: A Reference Handbook …

Poverty is now commonly recognised as a multi‐dimensional concept, but there is less
agreement about whether such recognition matters for poverty reduction policies in practice …