Poverty as Ideology: Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas

by Andrew Fischer

Book Overview

Winner of the International Studies in Poverty Prize awarded by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Zed Books.

Poverty has become the central focus of global development efforts, with a vast body of research and funding dedicated to its alleviation. And yet, the field of poverty studies remains deeply ideological and has been used to justify wealth and power within the prevailing world order. Andrew Martin Fischer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178699044X
• ISBN13: 9781786990440
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 8.4"