Dollarisation of Poverty: Rethinking Poverty Beyond 2015

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Palash Kamruzzaman

   Pages 1-6

3. An Overview of Understanding Poverty from Diverse Perspectives

   • Palash Kamruzzaman

   Pages 7-19

4. Problems of Dollarising Poverty

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   Pages 20-39

5. Poverty Reduction as a Development Agenda — Looking Beyond 2015

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   Pages 40-68

6. Conclusion

   • Palash Kamruzzaman

   Pages 69-81

7. Back Matter

   Pages 82-101

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This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developing countries in a post-2015 era. Taking specific country-contexts into account, the author argues that national poverty lines should be the benchmark for future anti-poverty policies.

• Developing Countries
• development
• poverty
• development aid

• University of Bath, UK

  Palash Kamruzzaman

Palash Kamruzzaman is a teaching fellow in International Development at the University of Bath, UK. He holds degrees in Anthropology and Sociology and has taught Development Studies, Sociology, and Social Policy in a number of British and Bangladeshi universities. His research and teaching interests include global poverty, politics of policy-making, participation, ethnographic approach towards development, civil society, and actor oriented sociology with a particular focus on Asia. He has published books, articles and book chapters in these areas.

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