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Informationen zum Autor Peter Townsend, in association with the Michael Harrington Center for Democratic Values and Social Change. Klappentext First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung First published in 1993. The scientific and political debate about poverty has been changing fast -with dramatic implications for intellectual interpretation and action by governments- and the intention in publishing this volume is to contribute to that debate. Scientists concerned to analyse poverty have been thrust by events into greater international service. But there are sinister forces at work which are seeking to divert them into petty issues, to blame the victims of poverty, or to cut them off from the resources or opportunities to investigate and report freely. This book is born of that frustration - and represents the changing debate during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I Theory and Measurement of Poverty 1 Introduction: The Changing World Map of Poverty 2 Conceptualising Poverty 3 What is Enough? The Definition of a Poverty Line -(with Dave Gordon) 4 Deprivation 5 A Theory of Poverty 6 Theoretical Disputes about Poverty 7 Meaningful Statistics on Poverty PART II The Third World 8 Poverty and Planning in India 9 Poverty in Kenya PART III The First World 10 The Poor Are Poorer 11 Hard Times: The Prospects For European Social Policy
