Despite the renewed commitment over the past 15 years to poverty reduction as the core objective of international … strategies (centred around economic growth and human development) that have been adopted to achieve poverty reduction, as well as … our very conception and understanding of poverty. While perspectives on poverty have evolved significantly over this …

the characteristics that make such poverty intractable in the face of policy. We apply the concepts of absolute and … relative poverty, as well as those of poverty depth, breadth and duration, to explore where to draw a line between the ‘merely … different spheres of life, and outline the causes of poverty that is absolutely or relatively severe, multidimensional and …