Overview

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.

Features of the Revised Edition

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.