2010年の世界銀行の調査によれば、12億人もが国際貧困ライン(1日1.25ドル)以下の収入で暮らしています。貧困はなぜ撲滅できないのでしょうか。人は皆、社会、政治、経済、教育、技術環境がもたらす不確実性にさらされています。貧困を決定づけるのはリスクに対する脆弱性であり、それはどこでどのような家族のもとに生まれたか、それは平時か戦時中か、水と衛生は確保できたか、性別、教育機会の有無に大きく左右されます。貧困の歴史と、根絶に向けた取り組みや分析、そして将来の貧困削減の可能性を概観します。
No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank, over 700 million people lived on less than US $2 a day in 2013. Why is that? What has been done about it in the past? And what is being done about it now?
In this Very Short Introduction Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us. He shows how a person's level of vulnerability to adverse changes in their life is very much dependent on the circumstances of their birth, including where their family lived, the schools they attended, whether it was peacetime or wartime, whether they had access to clean water, and whether they are male or female. Arguing that whilst poverty is ancient and enduring, the conversation about it is always new and evolving, Jefferson looks at the history of poverty, and the practical and analytical efforts we have made to eradicate it, and the prospects for further poverty alleviation in the future.
Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of abbreviations
1: Introduction
2: History
3: Measurement
4: Living: here and there
5: Labour markets
6: Distribution and mobility
7: Combating poverty
8: Whither poverty?
Further reading
Index
ISBN : 9780198716471
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