Approaches to Poverty a Note from the “Development” Perspective

Abstract

The purpose of this note to provide a brief summary of the way that poverty is, and has been understood by those involved in world development. These include not only professionals and policy implementers within the “development studies” profession and “high-level” and “lowlevel” practitioners such as the World Bank and other donors and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) but also who approach poverty and development through the prism of faith and religion. As will become apparent, the approaches to poverty considered here also include the perspective of those who are poor themselves