Poverty reduction is a central feature of the international development agenda and contemporary poverty reduction … strategies increasingly focus on “targeting the poor”, yet poverty and inequality remain intractable foes. The report seeks to … the causes, dynamics and persistence of poverty; examines what works and what has gone wrong in international policy …

Poverty reduction initiatives should be comprehensive, relational and global in their outlook even though poverty … Report provides a brief overview of contemporary work on conceptualisations of poverty. It outlines characteristics of multi …-dimensional and relational approaches to poverty and it examines the increased concern with the relation of inequality to poverty. The …