| Edition |
[Bloomsbury ed.]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Subject |
World Bank.
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World Bank. (OCoLC)fst00531892
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Poverty.
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Poverty -- Government policy.
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Economic assistance.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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Economic assistance. (OCoLC)fst00901592
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Poverty. (OCoLC)fst01074093
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Poverty -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst01074100
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Jomo K. S. (Jomo Kwame Sundaram)
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Chowdhury, Anis, 1954-
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United Nations.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Poor Poverty. Bloomsbury USA Academic 2011 9781849664172 (OCoLC)666237457 |
| ISBN |
9781849664523 (ebook) |
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1849664528 (ebook) |
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9781849664516 (electronic bk.) |
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184966451X (electronic bk.) |
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9781849664172 |
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184966417X |
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9781849666183 |
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1849666180 |
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