Poverty is central to the concept of development. However, the relevance given to particular aspects of poverty has … changed over the years and with it the manner in which poverty has been represented. The following paper explores how concepts … of poverty within the 'poverty discourse' have altered over a 30-year period. A diachronic analysis is performed to …

Poverty is often presented as an evolving concept linked to dominant development paradigms. However, changes in the … meaning of specific topics comprising definitions of poverty have been largely overlooked. Therefore, the authors adopted a … synchronic approach to evaluate changes contained within 159 definitions of poverty offered over a 30-year period from 1970s to …