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This unique international glossary provides an authoritative guide to some 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. Each entry contains definitions and explanations, followed by a select reading list of relevant journal articles and books. The glossary has been compiled by scholars from a number of countries and international agencies with the intention of sensitising researchers, students and policy makers working in a variety of ...
This book examines views about what poverty is and what should be done about it. 'Poverty' means many different things to different people -for example, material deprivation, lack of money, dependency on benefits, social exclusion or inequality. In The idea of Poverty, Paul Spicker makes a committed argument for a participative, inclusive understanding of the term. Spicker's previous work in this field has been described as "Entertaining and sometimes ...