-Wheeler and Stephen Devereux -- Poverty traps and natural disasters and assets in Ethiopia and Honduras / Michael R. Carter … -- HIV/AIDS, chronic poverty and social protection / Rachel Slater -- The social protection function of short-term public … works programmes in the context of chronic poverty / Anna McCord -- The emergence and popularity of conditional cash …

"Poverty in World History focuses upon the period from around 1500 onward when poverty became a global issue, and uses … the process of globalization as the chief lens through which to study and understand poverty in world history. The result … is both a tying together of significant strands of world history and an examination of changing attitudes toward poverty …