Poverty production: a different approach to poverty understanding

Abstract

Poverty understanding and poverty research can be said to have gone throughroughly three phases: Tale-telling, studies with a client focus as well as developmentresearch, and knowledge building about poverty reduction. Thestage is now set for a new phase, that of understanding the processes thatproduce poverty and continue to produce poverty at a rate no present povertyreducing measures can possibly win over or even compete with. The challengeahead is to make poverty production visible and place it firmly on theresearch agenda.