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1 Online-Ressource (xv, 316 pages)
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illustrations
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Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350221932
Series Statement:
CROP International Studies in Poverty Research
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Chapter one.Introduction: Poverty, ideology and development.Uncomfortable questions --Deconstructing the politics of poverty measures --Understanding poverty as ideology --The fundamental relativity of modern poverty --Three dominant approaches and a framework --Appendix: Note on the use of the terms `neoliberal' and `globalisation' in this book.
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Chapter two.Unpeeling the politics of poverty measures.The politics of representation --The politics of prioritisation --The politics of conception and production --The plentiful pathways of poverty analysis --Conclusion: The moral politics of poverty studies.
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Chapter three.Money-metric measures of poverty.Clarifications on the metric of money and unidimensionality --The arbitrariness of money-metric poverty measurement --Secular underestimations of absolute poverty.
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Chapter four.Multidimensional measures of poverty.Direct approaches to poverty measurement --Composite indicators and quandaries of aggregation --Subtle ideological shifts in Senology.
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Chapter five.The social exclusion approach.A synthesis of the social exclusion approach --The ambiguities of social exclusion --Differentiating social exclusion from poverty --The benefits of differentiation.
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Chapter six.Locating modern poverty within the creation and division of wealth: Towards a structuralist and institutionalist political economy approach in poverty studies.Production, distribution and redistribution: The classical triad --Supply, demand and terms of trade and wages --The fallacy of productivity reductionism and development.
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Chapter seven.Social policy and the tension between identification and segregation within social ordering and development.Social policy and social ordering in development --Universalising universalism.
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Chapter eight.Conclusion: Poverty as ideology in an age of neoliberalism.Deconstructing for social justice --The poverty of poverty studies --The return of segregation --The political consequences of shifting modalities of targeting --Beyond absolute poverty --Re-politicising social justice within global development agendas.
Content:
Shows how our dominant approaches to poverty studies have, in fact, served to reinforce the prevailing neoliberal ideology while neglecting the wider interests of social justice that are fundamental to creating more equitable societies. Instead, our development policies have created a 'poverty industry' that obscures the dynamic reproductions of poverty within contemporary capitalist development and promotes segregation in the name of science and charity. Fischer argues that an effective and lasting solution to global poverty requires us to reorient our efforts away from current fixations on productivity and towards more equitable distributions of wealth and resources. --From publisher description
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [284]-302) and index
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Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.5040/9781350221932
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