Escape from Poverty

Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Olivier De Schutter, Hugh Frazer, Anne-Catherine Guio, Eric Marlier, Belgium and UN Special Rapporteur) De Schutter, Olivier (UCLouvain, Ireland) Frazer, Hugh (Maynooth University, Anne-Catherine (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)) Guio, Eric (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)) Marlier, Olivier de Schutter

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ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. The perpetuation of poverty across generations damages lives. It weakens social cohesion and the economy and undermines environmental sustainability. This book examines why poverty is carried on from one generation to the next and what needs to be done to eradicate it.This book draws on a wide variety of sources and academic disciplines (social sciences, economics, law, community development, neuroscience and developmental psychology) along with the lived experience of people in poverty. Challenging the myths and prejudices about poverty that hinder progress, it calls for a comprehensive approach based on ensuring real equality of opportunity for all. It stresses the need to intervene early to combat child poverty and break the vicious cycles that perpetuate poverty and disadvantage.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-17
Mått127 x 203 x 18 mm
Vikt328 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagBristol University Press
ISBN9781447370604

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Olivier De Schutter is Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium and the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.Hugh Frazer is Adjunct Professor at Maynooth University, Ireland, a former Director of the Irish Government’s Combat Poverty Agency and an expert on child poverty and European Union (EU) social policy. Anne-Catherine Guio is Senior Researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and ensured the scientific coordination of the first two EU’s Feasibility Studies for a ‘European Child Guarantee’. Eric Marlier is International Scientific Coordinator at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and manages the 38-country ‘European Social Policy Analysis Network’ funded by the EU.

"This book provides various pathways towards ‘Good Living’ (Buen Vivir), as an alternative to development: a call to move beyond the fetishism of progress, which, far from alleviating poverty and slowing down the destruction of Nature, steadily increases them both." Alberto Acosta, Former President of the Constituent Assembly of Ecuador [2007-2008]"This book is an informed and impassioned call to action to end (monetary) poverty and its concatenation of effects on children’s lives. It distils the vast and dispersed literature on inter-generational perpetuation of poverty accurately in a readable and concise fashion – which itself is no minor feat. Its analysis is a springboard to articulate actions that would uproot poverty feasibly and permanently. The authors’ intellectual rigour and ethical energy permeates the narrative, making this a book to be read seriously and to be used." Sabina Alkire, Professor, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford, United Kingdom"In this book a talented group of researchers give us direction on how to build on the world progress in reducing extreme poverty and break the circle of poverty. As so clearly presented in this book, with excellent academic basis, this is the ultimate goal in advancing the lives of so many children and families around the world." Asher Ben-Arieh, Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel