Anti-Poverty Psychology

• Main Author: Carr, Stuart C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: International and Cultural Psychology,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Sociology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Sociology, general.

Reducing poverty, whether globally or locally, has always comprised a set of complex critical tasks. But just as essential as the tasks is their underlying worldview: where formerly the emphasis was on changing institutions and thus changing people, the movement now is away from paternalistic remedi...