Understanding Global Poverty: Causes, Solutions, and Capabilities

by Serena Cosgrove and Benjamin Curtis

Book Overview

Understanding Global Poverty introduces students to the study and analysis of poverty, helping them to understand why it is pervasive across human societies, and how it can be reduced through proven policy solutions.

The book uses the capabilities and human development approach to foreground the human aspects of poverty, keeping the voices, experiences, and needs of the world's poor central to the analysis. Starting with definitions and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036748983X
• ISBN13: 9780367489830
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.7"