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 …

"This book explores poverty reduction in the least developed or developing economies through the creation of livelihood … needed to substantially and sustainability reduce poverty through the use of conceptual and theoretical ideas, case studies …