Bent Greve - Poverty

Poverty has dire consequences on the ability to fulfil ones aspirations for life. Poverty has strong implications for social cohesion and societies abilities to function in harmonious ways. This book presents the readers with the core concepts, latest development and knowledge about policies that work to eliminate absolute poverty.

This volume shows what the consequences are for the quality of life of those living in poverty. It describes life for people in poverty in general, but also deals more specifically with children, in-work poverty and the elderly, thus providing a life, generational and global perspective on poverty, including the impact on peoples happiness levels. The book also discusses policies aimed at poverty reduction, such as changes to the labour market including the risk of working poor and shows that there is a variety of possible instruments available to reduce poverty. These range from direct provision of social security to ensuring education and a better functioning labour market.

Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book provides a succinct insight into the concept of poverty, how to measure it, the situation of poverty around the globe as well as different types of possible interventions to cope with poverty. Supporting theory with examples and case studies from a variety of contexts, suggestions for further reading, and a detailed glossary, this text is an essential read for anyone approaching the study of poverty for the first time.

Bent Greve is Professor of Welfare State Analysis in the Department of Society and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has published widely on different topics surrounding the welfare state, including technology and the labour market, happiness and social policy, labour market policy, and most recently on populism and the welfare state. He is editor of Social Policy and Administration.

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Names: Greve, Bent, author.

Title: Poverty : the basics / Bent Greve.

Description: 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: The basics | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019028289 (print) | LCCN 2019028290 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367276348 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367276362 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429297007 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Poverty. | PovertySocial aspects. | Economic policy. | Social justice.

Classification: LCC HC79.P6 G748 2019 (print) | LCC HC79.P6 (ebook) | DDC 339.4/6dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019028289

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019028290

ISBN: 978-0-367-27634-8 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-367-27636-2 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-29700-7 (ebk)

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Poverty is still a daily life condition for many persons around the globe. It influences peoples quality of life, it causes losses for societies and has an impact on social cohesion.

Despite this, in many ways there is still not agreement on how to measure and understand what poverty is. There is no common agreement of the causes of poverty, and there are different national and international understandings of what poverty can be considered to be.

However, at the same time it is important to know the core concepts, discussions and development with regard to poverty. This is the aim of this book, as it hopefully will enable readers to look into it from the many and very diverse angles. Therefore, the book includes conceptual elements, historical developments, regional differences and policies that might have an impact on poverty.

I would like to express my thanks to the contributors to my edited volume, the Routledge International Handbook of Poverty, and to those who reviewed the different chapters. This has helped me in the writing of this book.

Bent Greve,
May 2019