Synopses & Reviews
This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional and complex nature of this social condition. This revised edition includes a range of new entries to keep pace with an expanding field of discourse, an extended set of references, and further perspectives from developing countries. A particular effort has been made to incorporate non-Western approaches and concepts.
Review
"An indispensable guide ... Spicker's final chapter is a masterly review of the subject." - David Donnison, Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow
About the Author
Paul Spicker holds the Grampian Chair of Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, and is Director of the Centre for Public Policy and Management. Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón is Associate Professor of Urban Anthropology in the Faculty of Humanities, National University of Salta, Argentina. David Gordon is Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bristol.
Table of Contents
Introducing the glossary - Else Øyen
Poverty: An International Glossary
Definitions of poverty: twelve clusters of meaning - Paul Spicker
Contributors
Index