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This book 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 publication argues that the mainstream perspectives on poverty and deprivation have contributed to considerable distortion and misunderstanding and that is not unrelated to ineffectual policy prescriptions. 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.
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- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The terrible simplifi ers: Common origins of financial crises and persistent poverty in economic theory and the new â1848 momentâ
- Chapter 2. Growth, development policy, job creation and poverty reduction
- Chapter 3. Governance, growth and poverty reduction
- Chapter 4. The emperorâs new suit: Global poverty estimates reappraised
- Chapter 5. Poverty reduction in China and India: Policy implications of recent trends
- Chapter 6. The bottom of the pyramid strategy for reducing poverty: A failed promise
- Chapter 7. How effective is microfinance as a poverty reduction tool?
- Chapter 8. Property rights for poverty reduction?
- Chapter 9. How cash transfers promote work and economic security
- Index