The New Poverty Agenda is said to represent a break with the past and to offer a rationale for aid that is built on … partnerships towards a common and realizable goal - the elimination of poverty. However, recent critiques have highlighted problems … with the practice of poverty policy, and particularly limitations identified from its association with global actors which …

the broadening of definitions of poverty and ill-being and the current predilection for participatory research. The CWP … exercise was intended to provide a nuanced understanding of poverty, and is supposed to reflect a fresh approach by the World …

This paper is concerned with the factors that influence and constrain NGO contributions to poverty reduction in a … globalizing world, focusing on their role as transmitters of grounded knowledge about poverty in very poor countries. Interviews … local understandings about poverty are being overridden by so-called programmes of partnership support that erode local …

Poverty is often presented as an evolving concept linked to dominant development paradigms. However, changes in the … meaning of specific topics comprising definitions of poverty have been largely overlooked. Therefore, the authors adopted a … synchronic approach to evaluate changes contained within 159 definitions of poverty offered over a 30-year period from 1970s to …

concludes that, to reduce poverty, interventions must be accompanied by broader packages of prolonged support, enabling …

This study discusses the relationship between poverty and vulnerability. It investigates how vulnerability can be … integrated into the livelihood framework for poverty alleviation and vulnerability mitigation, as well as the development of … the development process and embedded in everyday lives and livelihood practices. Poverty and vulnerability reduction are …

poverty integration. Alternatively, if racial segregation pushed higher- and lower-income African Americans to reside together …, increasing racial integration may lead higher-income African Americans to sort into higher-income non-African American … neighborhoods, decreasing poverty integration. Using consistently bounded census tract data for thirty-six large metropolitan areas …