Global poverty : rethinking causality / edited by Raju J. Das and Deepak K. Mishra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Das, Raju J., editor.

Mishra, Deepak K., editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 225.

Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 225

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Economic policy.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 345 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Contents:

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1 Analysing Poverty Causally: An Introduction

1 Poverty of poverty analysis

2 Understanding Poverty, Questions about Poverty

3 Overview of Chapter Contributions

3.1 Theoretical Reflections on Poverty's Causality

3.2 Theoretically-Informed Concrete Studies of Causes of Poverty

References

Chapter 2 Absolute, Relative and Multidimensional Measures of Poverty

1 Introduction

2 The Making of an Absolute Poverty Measure

3 Some Problems with Absolute Poverty Measures

4 Relative Poverty Measures

5 Critiques of Relative Poverty Measures

6 Multidimensional Poverty Measures

7 Conclusion

Chapter 3 Poverty: A Marxist View

1 Defining Poverty

2 Convergence or Divergence?

3 Global Inequality

4 Inequality within Nations

5 Wealth or Income?

6 The Causes: The Classical View

7 The Causes: A Marxist View

8 Conclusion

Chapter 4 Why Is There Poverty in the Rich Countries? A Marxist Analysis

2 Poverty and the Waged Economy

2.1 Employment

2.2 Unemployment

2.3 Social Differentiation of Employment and Unemployment

2.4 Spatial Differentiation

3 Poverty and the State

3.1 State Intervention into the Waged Economy

3.2 Taxation of the Poor

3.3 Social Services

3.4 State Benefits

3.4.1 Social Insurance and Contributory Benefits

3.4.2 Non-contributory Benefits

3.4.3 Tax Credits

4 Social Reproduction and Poverty

4.1 Household, Caring Work and Gender

4.2 The Decline of Neighbourhood Survival Strategies of the Poor

4.3 Housing

4.4 Poor Neighbourhoods

4.5 Damaged by Commodities

5 Conclusion

6 A Postscript on the Pandemic

Chapter 5 Class and Social Needs: A Marxian Theory of Poverty

1 Conventional Approaches to Poverty

1.1 The World Bank Approach

1.2 The Post-developmentalist Approach

1.3 The Capability Approach

2 The Missing Element of Class and Its Consequences

3 Handling the Orientalist Issue in Class Focused Theory of Poverty

4 Marxian Theories of Poverty

5 Class and Overdetermination: Production and Distribution

6 Production, Distribution and Redistribution: Class, Social Surplus and Social Needs

7 Poverty and Poor

8 Class and Social Surplus in Poverty: An Illustration from India

9 Conclusion

Chapter 6 Needs, Capital Accumulation, and Poverty: The Case of Food

2 Development and Food Insecurity

2.1 Food and Development

2.2 Philosophy, Food and Needs

3 Human Needs and the Labour-capital Contradiction

4 Conclusion: For a Normative Assessment of Human Needs Development

Chapter 7 The Rise and Fall of Inequality and Poverty Reduction in Brazil

2 Inequality and Poverty in Brazil: Evolution and Trends

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Global poverty

ISBN:

9789004514607

9004514600

Publisher Number:

40031469724

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