Poverty and Inequality in Middle Income Countries - Policy Achievements, Political Obstacles

This collection offers a timely reassessment of viable ways of addressing poverty across the globe today. The profile of global poverty has changed dramatically over the past decade, and around three-quarters of the poor now live in middle income countries, making inequality a major issue. This requires us to fundamentally rethink anti-poverty strategies and policies, as many aspects of the established framework for poverty reduction are no longer effective. Featuring contributions from Latin America, Africa and Asia, this much-needed collection answers some of the key questions arising as development policy confronts the challenges of poverty and inequality on the global, national and local scale in both urban and rural contexts.Providing poverty researchers and practitioners with valuable new tools to address new forms of poverty in the right way, shows how a radical switch from aid to redistribution-based social policies is needed to combat new forms of global poverty.>

Summary

Re-assesses strategies for poverty reduction in light of recent dramatic changes in the nature of global poverty.

Product details

• Authors: , Einar Braathen, Julian May, Marianne Ulriksen, Gemma C. Braathen Wright
• Assisted by: Einar Braathen (Editor), Juliana Martínez Franzoni (Editor), Julian May (Editor), Thomas Pogge (Editor), Marianne Ulriksen (Editor), Gemma Wright (Editor), Gemma C. Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781783605576
• ISBN: 978-1-78360-557-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: International Studies in Poverty Research; Zed Books - International Stud; International Studies in Poverty Research; International Studies in Pover; Zed Books - International Stud
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education