Sustainability and Social Justice
Rethinking Poverty Alleviation: A 'Poverties' Approach
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article argues that the practice of poverty alleviation is greatly limited by a vision of poverty that fails to capture the locally specific causes of and solutions to the challenges that threaten human well-being. This problematic vision of poverty takes real-world form in such initiatives as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. It is a key reason why this and other contemporary poverty-alleviation efforts do not show greatly improved results compared with previous efforts. By reframing our understanding of the challenges to human well-being from poverty to 'poverties', however, we might envisage a new approach to policy development in relation to poverty that moves us towards a truly sustainable development.
Publication Title
Development in Practice
Publication Date
11-1-2008
Volume
18
Issue
6
First Page
726
Last Page
734
ISSN
0961-4524
DOI
10.1080/09614520802386363
Keywords
aid, methods, Sub-Saharan Africa
Repository Citation
Carr, Edward, "Rethinking Poverty Alleviation: A 'Poverties' Approach" (2008). Sustainability and Social Justice. 104.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_idce/104