Understanding Poverty and Well-Being - Bridging the Disciplines

Informationen zum Autor Hulme, David; Toye, John Zusammenfassung Written by a multi-disciplinary team of contributors, the essays in this collection explore the different dimensions of well-being, poverty and inequality. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Case for Cross-disciplinary Social Science Research on Poverty, Inequality and Well-being 2. Representing Poverty and Attacking Representations: Perspectives on Poverty from Social Anthropology 3. Pluralism, Poverty and Sharecropping: Cultivating Open-mindedness in Development Studies 4. Capabilities, Reproductive Health and Well-being 5. Development and Social Capital 6. Subjective Well-being Poverty vs. Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 7. Poverty, Persistence and Transitions in Uganda: A Combined Qualitative and Quantitive Analysis 8. Consumption and Welfare in Ghana in the 1990s

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• Authors: Hulme T. David, David Hulme, David Hulme, David (University of Manchester Hulme, David Toye Hulme, HULME DAVID TOYE JOHN
• Assisted by: David Hulme (Editor), John Toye (Editor), Toye John (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2007
• EAN: 9780415366755
• ISBN: 978-0-415-36675-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Interdisciplinary studies