Introduction

FÉLIZ, MARIANO; ROSENBERG, AARON L.

The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South

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Lugar: Ibidem Verlag / CROP; Año: 2017; p. 17 - 24

What is poverty? This seems like a logical point at which we may beginthe exploration of a constellation of investigations proposed by the editorsand contributors of this volume. Such an apparently simple question,however, is, as these pages will eloquently and thoroughly reveal,fraught with complications and oftentimes petrifying ambiguities. Thatis not to say, of course, that there has been any shortage of individualsand organizations reluctant to propose and insist upon their particularvisions and definitions of poverty.