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Community Development Journal 2007 42(3):403-405; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsm023
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Understanding Poverty

Fran Bennett

Alcock Pete , 3rd edition, Campling Jo, consultant ed., Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2006, 304 pp., ISBN-13 978 1-4039-4093-3, £19.99stg

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In courses on poverty and social exclusion I have taught, Understanding Poverty has probably been the source most widely cited by students. It is possible that the position of this third edition may now be threatened in UK by both Ruth Lister's Poverty (2004) and Paul Spicker's The Idea of Poverty (2007). But the status of Understanding Poverty as the introductory textbook on poverty and related concepts is likely to continue. Here you can find all the classic quotations about poverty and inequality, from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen. You can look up Pen's (1971) ‘parade of dwarfs and a few giants’ (pp. 94–95) and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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