The international glossary on poverty / edited by David Gordon and Paul Spicker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, David, 1959-

Spicker, Paul.

Comparative Research Programme on Poverty.

Series:

CROP international studies in poverty research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Dictionaries.

Poverty.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

xi, 162 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books, 1999.

Summary:

This unique international glossary provides an authoritative guide to some 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. Each entry contains definitions and explanations, followed by a select reading list of relevant journal articles and books. The Glossary has been compiled by academics from a number of countries and international agencies with the intention of sensitizing scholars, students and policymakers working in a variety of disciplines to the complexities of the issues relating to the subject. In particular, the Glossary will help overcome the current difficulties arising from the absence of an agreed vocabulary, as well as the unfamiliarity of terms and concepts in one relevant discipline to those operating in other. The multidimensional character of poverty becomes visible and a special effort has been made to include non-Western approaches and concepts with a view to facilitating comparative poverty studies.

Contents:

Do Poverty Definitions Matter? / Robert Pinker 1

The Poverty Glossary 7

Definitions of Poverty: Eleven Clusters of Meaning / Paul Spicker 150.

Notes:

"Published in association with the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty of the International Social Science Council"--Cover p. [4].

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1856496872

1856496880

OCLC:

40256010