New Thinking on Poverty: Implications for Globalisation and Poverty Reduction Strategies

Paul Shaffer

Working Papers from United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs

Abstract: Three main changes in thinking about poverty have gained increasing currency over the past decade. First, the concept of poverty has broadened, with increasing attention to issues of vulnerability, inequality and human rights. Second, the causal structure has broadened to include causal variables, such as social, political, cultural, coercive and environmental capital. Third, the causal structure has deepened to focus on flows of individuals into and out of poverty, rather than on changes in the stock of poverty, and on strategies of social protection versus poverty reduction. The paper reviews these changes and their implications for globalisation and policy.

Keywords: globalisation, poverty, vulnerability, inequality, poverty reduction strategies; social protection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 O10 O15 O19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2008-02
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