Ian Gough (University of Bath), J. Allister McGregor (University of Bath)
In a world where many experience unprecedented levels of wellbeing, chronic poverty remains a major concern for many developing countries and the international community. Conventional frameworks for understanding development and poverty have focused on money, commodities and economic growth. This 2007 book challenges these conventional approaches and contributes to a new paradigm for development centred on human wellbeing. Poor people are not defined solely by their poverty and a wellbeing approach provides a better means of understanding how people become and stay poor. It examines three...
In a world where many experience unprecedented levels of wellbeing, chronic poverty remains a major concern for many developing countries and the inte...
