This is not a book about the poor but about poverty and the political use and abuse of the issue. At the same time, poverty is a consensus issue. No one can be against helping the poor, despite significant ideological differences. This book brings order to that confusing reality. It explains the place of poverty in the political and social order, globally, in Europe and in Latin America. It explains how its eradication is avoided and how poverty is created, day after day. Today's world is a poverty factory.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Foreword
- Understanding how poverty is made
- Introduction
- The world is not doing well
- Neoliberal failure
- Bread on the table fi rst
- The importance of social justice
- Combat poverty
- Is poverty reduction a valid objective?
- How it came about
- Part I. The History
- Aporophobia
- Chapter 1. How poverty got on the new global agenda?
- No poverty, but development
- Poverty alleviation versus social security
- Social Protection
- The International Labour Organization
- In Europe
- Universal social protection
- Global programes?
- From underdevelopment to the underdeveloped
- Chapter 2. Why is poverty on the agenda?
- How has poverty fared in recent decades?
- Everlasting themes
- Who can fi ght poverty?
- And Belgium? Poverty in a rich country
- Feminization of poverty
- Child poverty
- Chapter 3. What is poverty?
- A 'wicked problem'?
- Participatory research
- More and less
- Other measurements
- Basic Income
- Poverty is an income defi cit
- Part II. Without poverty, without inequality
- Artifi cial intelligence
- Chapter 4. A world without poverty is not a just world
- Ideological diff erences
- The function of poverty
- Just dreaming
- Inequality
- Equality of opportunity
- ‘Us’ and the poor
- Parte III. How to get around poverty reduction
- Rich and Poor
- Chapter 5. Poverty, an excuse for philanthropy
- Paternalism
- Influence and power
- Profitable charities
- No Global governance
- We know
- Patriotism wealth
- Chapter 6. Crumbs and fines
- What do we give?
- Less life
- The polluter does not pay
- Migrants and refugees
- Working in the sweat of one’s face
- Everyday punishments
- Prisons
- Chapter 7. Christian Charity
- Che Guevara and Mother Theresa
- Liberation Theology
- Church and State
- Faith and emancipation
- Modernity
- The left’s confusion
- Chapter 8. Rebellion or... asking for what has already been given
- Globalization
- No radicalism
- Chaos
- Part IV. Right to development
- China and Poverty Eradication1
- Chapter 9. Not poverty, but inequality and wealth are the problem
- The welfare of the poorest?
- Inequality on the agenda
- Lots of zeros
- What is inequality?
- Is that bad?
- Chapter 10. What then?
- People make history
- Aid to people rendered poor
- Broad social protection
- Tax
- Economy
- Right to Development
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
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