Poverty and livelihoods: whose reality counts?
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Poverty and livelihoods: whose reality counts?
This paper explores how professionals’ universal, reductionist and standardized views of poverty differ from those of the poor themselves. Poverty line thinking concerned with income-poverty and employment thinking concerned with jobs, project Northern concerns on the South, where the realities of the poor are local, diverse, often complex and dynamic. Examples illustrate how poor people’s crit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environment and Urbanization
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0956-2478,1746-0301
DOI: 10.1177/095624789500700106