This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free P

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality—a critically important examination of poverty around the world In this, his fina

Child poverty is a central and present part of global life, with hundreds of millions of children around the world enduring tremendous suffering and deprivation

In a world where many experience unprecedented levels of wellbeing, chronic poverty remains a major concern for many developing countries and the international

The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international, inter-disci