About the Book

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 character of this social condition. The new edition includes a range of entries to keep pace with an expanding field of discourse, an expanded set of references and further perspectives from developing countries. A special effort has been made to incorporate non-Western approaches and concepts.

Commendations

"An indispensable guide ... Spicker’s final chapter is a masterly review of the subject." - David Donnison, Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow

'Surprisingly compact, this succinct lexicon explains over 200 technical terms that the student or practitioner of international development should aim to be able to quote verbatim. Overall, the Glossary contains concise and enlightening explanations, like "Fourth World", referring to chronically deprived communities in developed countries, and definitions of poverty in Islam and the Arab world. This second edition also invites Latin American scholars to the editorial board, both to highlight the variance in poverty definitions around the world, and to challenge, as the foreword acknowledges, the first edition's exclusively Western paradigm...the Glossary illustrates the scope of poverty analysis and, with its thorough referencing, both directs and impels the reader to further study.' New Agriculturalist

Contents

Introducing the glossary - Else Øyen
Poverty: An International Glossary
Definitions of poverty: twelve clusters of meaning - Paul Spicker
Contributors
Index

About the Authors

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.

Academic Adoption Information

This book is used for teaching at the following institutions:

University of Southampton