2000/2001 Fighting Poverty

Author: Dang Haipeng
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Publish Date: 2001-03-01
Features: This report adopts the established views on poverty, which not only refers to low income and low consumption but also indicates fewer achievements in areas such as education, healthcare, nutrition, and other aspects of human development. Furthermore, based on the meaning of poverty as understood by people, this report expands this definition to include lack of power, lack of voice, vulnerability, and a sense of fear. The above aspects of human deprivation are powerfully articulated in a World Bank study titled Voices of the Poor. As background material for this report, the book systematically summarizes the perspectives of over 60,000 people living in poverty from 60 countries.