ABSTRACT
The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and in 2014 it was halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030. The reduction in poverty is, to a high degree, the consequence of the rapid economic development in a few countries, especially China, but in many countries around the globe poverty is still at a high level and is influencing societies’ overall development. It is against this background that this Handbook provides an up-to-date analysis and overview of the topic from a large variety of theoretical and methodological angles.
Organised into four parts, the Handbook provides knowledge on what poverty is, how it has developed, and what type of policies might be able to succeed in reducing poverty. Part I investigates conceptual issues and relates concepts to people’s relative position in society and the understanding of justice. Part II shows how poverty has developed. It combines existing empirical knowledge with regional/national understandings of the issue of poverty. Part III analyses policies and interventions with the aim of reducing or alleviating poverty within a national as well as global context. It includes a variety of countries and examples. Finally, Part IV tells us what can be done about poverty; what instruments are available to end poverty as we know it today.
This volume will be an invaluable reference book for students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly in sociology, social policy, public policy, development studies, international relations and politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|108 pages
Conceptual issues
chapter 5|18 pages
Multidimensional poverty across the life cycle
part II|125 pages
Poverty around the world and development in poverty
chapter 11|9 pages
The discourse of poverty
chapter 13|14 pages
Poverty in developing countries, 1990–2016
chapter 14|20 pages
What contributes to a higher degree of voluntarism in China’s rural displacement programmes?
part III|154 pages
Policies toward poverty
part IV|7 pages
The way forward