The Many Meanings of Poverty
The Many Meanings of Poverty

Author: Cynthia E. Milton

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780804751780

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The Many Meanings of Poverty is about poverty in a colonial context—it argues that the cultural meanings of poverty defined social compacts that served to bolster and undermine the sources of colonialism.

Understanding Poverty
Understanding Poverty

Author: Peter Alcock

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Limited

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9780333692806

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This second edition of an important text has been substantially revised and updated to incorporate new evidence and arguments regarding poverty in Britain. Comprehensive and accessible, it deals with the problems of definition, measurement and distribution of poverty and analyses the full range of debates about its causes and its possible solution. It is essential reading for students of social policy, sociology, social work and related social sciences.

When Helping Hurts
When Helping Hurts

Author: Steve Corbett

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2014-01-24

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0802487629

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With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation. Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good. But it looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy—and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself. Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts provides proven strategies for effective poverty alleviation, catalyzing the idea that sustainable change comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out.

Poverty
Poverty

Author: Ruth Lister

Publisher: Polity

Published: 2004-12-10

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0745625649

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Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. This text provides an introduction to the meaning and experience of poverty in the contemporary world.

The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty
The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty

Author: Jeremy Seabrook

Publisher: Verso

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781859845660

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At the turn of the new millennium, the United Nations determined that world poverty would be halved by 2015. International agencies are all committed to "poverty abatement." The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have renamed their structural adjustment policies "poverty reduction strategies." But can this work? No, argues Jeremy Seabrook, not if we fail to understand the meaning of poverty. Drawing on testimonies from around the world, as well as on the hard facts, he challenges the assumption that wealth overcomes poverty, and demonstrates that the opposite of "poor" is not "rich" but "self-reliant." Appealing passionately for a shared sense of "sufficiency," he gives verbal snapshots of people's lives to show how poverty shifts, changes and endures in response to the growth of wealth.

Materializing Poverty
Materializing Poverty

Author: Erin B. Taylor

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-10-10

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0759124221

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Poverty is generally defined as a lack of material resources. However, the relationships that poor people have with their possessions are not just about deprivation. Material things play a positive role in the lives of poor people: they help people to build social relationships, address inequalities, and fulfill emotional needs. In this book, anthropologist Erin Taylor explores how residents of a squatter settlement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, use their material resources creatively to solve everyday problems and, over a few decades, radically transform the community. Their struggles show how these everyday engagements with materiality, rather than more dramatic efforts, generate social change and build futures.