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 paper critically reviews the recent changes to the Global Poverty numbers generated by the World Bank in 2008 …. While they have little impact on observed poverty trends and while there are good reasons to believe that the previous … numbers were on weak foundations, the new numbers on levels of poverty in the developing world create new uncertainties und …