Ananya Roy
Author
Series
Poverty Interrupted volume 2
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"Encountering Poverty disrupts the new optimism about poverty action, challenging mainstream frameworks of global poverty. Going beyond poverty as a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions, the book focuses on the power and privilege underpinning persistent impoverishment. It explores poverty action's place in the opportunities and limits of the current moment, with its rapacious market forces and resurgent...