Current perspectives on global poverty: rights, capabilities and social exclusion

Ayşe Buğra

Chapter 3 in Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty, 2026, pp 39-56 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, three currently dominant theoretical perspectives on poverty are discussed in light of the changing character of global poverty in the post-Second World War period. The capability, social exclusion and human rights perspectives are examined by drawing attention to the differences and similarities between the ways they address questions that are salient in the contemporary poverty debate. The chapter discusses the possibility of approaching the problem of poverty in the North and in the South by using similar terms and tools of analysis and highlights the importance of social protection measures in both groups of countries, especially in the context of the current challenges which emerge in the global economy and politics. It is observed that past contributions to our understanding of poverty continue to inform the analyses of human deprivation, but coordinated international policy action is now needed more than ever and we are faced with the question whether such coordinated action would be possible in the current state of international relations.

Keywords: Capability deprivation; Social exclusion; Social human rights; International inequality; Extreme poverty; Relative poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035350506
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