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dc.contributor.authorChambers, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2011-03-04T12:37:59Z
dc.date.available2011-03-04T12:37:59Z
dc.date.issued1995-04
dc.identifier.citationChambers, R. 1995. Poverty and livelihoods: whose reality counts? Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 7, No. 1 (April 1995), pp 137-204en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/272
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores how professionals' universal, reductionist and standardized views of poverty differ from those of the poor themselves. Poverty line thinking concerned with income-poverty and employment thinking concerned with jobs, project Northern concerns on the South, where the realities of the poor are local, diverse, often complex and dynamic. Examples illustrate how poor people's criteria differ from those assumed for them by professionals. The paper also discusses neglected dimensions of deprivation including vulnerability, seasonality, powerlessness and humiliation. In the new understandings of poverty, wealth as an objective is replaced by wellbeing and "employment" in jobs by livelihood. The final sections argue for altruism and reversals to enable poor people to analyze and articulate their own needs, and they conclude with the implications for policy and practice of putting first the priorities of the poor.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherSageen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/80en_GB
dc.subjectPovertyen_GB
dc.titlePoverty and livelihoods: whose reality counts?en_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.identifier.blds142876


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    A complete bibliography of Robert Chambers spanning four decades of research on participatory development.

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