This handbook examines poverty measurement, anti-poverty policy and programs, and poverty theory from the perspective of economics. It is written in a highly accessible style that encourages critical thinking about poverty. What's known about the sources of poverty and its alleviation are...

"The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and it was in 2014 halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is to a high degree the consequence of the rapid economic development in a few countries,...

Die Wahrnehmung wachsender sozialer Unsicherheiten und Spaltungen lässt, nicht zuletzt aufgrund der COVID-19-Pandemie, Fragen von sozialer Ungleichheit und Armut wieder verstärkt in den Blick rücken. Das interdisziplinäre Handbuch geht auf diese neuen und alten Herausforderungen ein und...

"In the United States, the causes and even the meanings of poverty are disconnected from the causes and meanings of global poverty. The Routledge Handbook of Poverty and the United States provides an authoritative overview of the relationship of poverty with the rise of neoliberal capitalism in...