"Much ink has been spilled on poverty measurements and trends, at the expense of revealing causality. Assembling multi …-disciplinary and international contributions, this book shows that a causal understanding of poverty in rich and poor countries is … mechanisms producing poverty as an outcome. Processes that widen/strengthen crisis-ridden market relations, that increase income …

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 …