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Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-First Century
Peasants are a majority of the world’s poor. Despite this, there has been little effort to bridge the fields of peasant and poverty studies. Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-first Century provides a much-needed critical perspective linking three central questions: Why has peasantry, unlike other areas of non-capitalist production, persisted? Why are the vast majority of peasants poor? And how are these two questions related? Interweaving contributions from various disciplines, the book provides a range of responses, offering new theoretical, historical and policy perspectives on this peasant 'world drama'. Scholars from both South and North argue that, in order to find the pol...
From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing (Volume 2)
Following the highly respected first volume, this book outlines Julio Boltvinik’s Marxian approach to poverty and human flourishing.
From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing (Volume 1)
This book offers a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik’s vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. While well known to Spanish-speaking audiences, this volume brings these works together to offer access for English-speaking audiences for the first time. The book provides the foundations, application and empirical examples of Boltvinik’s Integrated Poverty Measurement Method, which could potentially transform poverty narratives globally as it has done in Mexico. Deeply critical of available poverty approaches, it provides a challenging and radically new way of conceiving and measuring poverty, offering the only multidimensional poverty measurement method which includes time poverty and allows all Aggregate Poverty Measures to be fully calculated.
Confronting Development
Since the 1980s, Mexico has alternately served as a model of structural economic reform and as a cautionary example of the limitations associated with market-led development. This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary assessment of the principal economic and social policies adopted by Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s.
From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing (Volume 1)
This book offers a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik’s vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. While well known to Spanish-speaking audiences, this volume brings these works together to offer access for English-speaking audiences for the first time. The book provides the foundations, application and empirical examples of Boltvinik’s Integrated Poverty Measurement Method, which could potentially transform poverty narratives globally as it has done in Mexico. Deeply critical of available poverty approaches, it provides a challenging and radically new way of conceiving and measuring poverty, offering the only multidimensional poverty measurement method which includes time poverty and allows all Aggregate Poverty Measures to be fully calculated.
Poverty
"In Poverty: A Philosophical Approach, the author studies various philosophical issues concerning poverty in the Program for Education, Health and Food (PROGRESA) that was in effect in Mexico, from 1997 to 2002, and shows how theoretical discussion is necessary to clarify some ideas concerning the application of a social policy." "The book considers social policies applied to poverty, and their occasional abuse of utilitarian instruments. Many are implemented without considering cultural differences, including varying patterns of conduct in diverse communities."--BOOK JACKET.
Our North America
What we call "North America" today is a human space that has been constructed over the centuries, perceived from time immemorial by its original inhabitants as a unified whole, and named Turtle Island. What is North America today? Is it more than the sum of its parts? Does it qualify as a distinct global region? Is it just a market or also something else? This book explores several neglected aspects of the key relationships between Canada, Mexico and the United States. Studies of societal relations in North America have typically been limited to trade, investment and intergovernmental relations. In contrast, the authors in this book address other vital issues which bind this global region to...
De la pobreza al florecimiento humano
No se descubre nada al decir que la cuestión de la pobreza en el mundo es apremiante. Sin embargo, explicar en qué consiste y cuáles son sus características (dimensiones y escalas) supone un reto más difícil. A esta tarea de medir la pobreza y la desigualdad, así como de mitigar sus efectos y combatir los descontentos que acarrean, se han abocado diversas instituciones financieras a escala internacional desde hace décadas. No obstante, sus resultados no siempre han sido satisfactorios ni convincentes, es más, se podría decir que a la luz de las evidencias actuales son parcos y decepcionantes. Y este fracaso se explica, en parte, debido a que las metodologías empleadas han tendido ...
La Desigualdad en México
México es un país históricamente marcado por la desigualdad. Los grandes y pequeños rasgos que le dan especificidad a nuestra sociedad y a su historia tienen en la desigualdad abismal un contexto estructural y cultural decisivo. Los ensayos que se recogen en este libro tienen como propósito analizar y documentar este fenómeno en sus distintas y más importantes manifestaciones.
