Organized into four sections, this Handbook provides knowledge on what poverty is, how it has developed, and what type of policies might be able to succeed in reducing poverty.

1. Poverty: Still an Important Issue PART 1: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 2. Absolute Poverty 3. Absolute or Relative? Definitions and the Different Understandings of Poverty 4. Multidimensional Poverty: Whose Poverty Is It? 5. Multidimensional Poverty Across the Life Cycle: The United States as an Empirical Example 6. Preventing Poverty 7. Relative Deprivation and Subjective Social Position 8. The Consequences of Growing Up Poor 9. Social Justice as Parity of Participation 10. Global Poverty: Trends, Measures, and Antidotes 11. The Discourse of Poverty: Structural and Behavioural Approaches in the UK Since 1900 PART 2: POVERTY AROUND THE WORLD AND DEVELOPMENT IN POVERTY 12. Poverty Development in Affluent Welfare States 13. Poverty in Developing Countries, 1990-2016: Some Regional, Temporal, and Income Level Variations 14. What Contributes to a Higher Degree of Voluntarism in China's Rural Displacement Programs? Poverty Alleviation Resettlement as a Case Study 15. Dynamics of Rural Transformation and Poverty and Inequality in Asia and the Pacific 16. Poverty in Africa 17. Poverty and Social Policy in Latin America: Key Trends since C. 2000 18. Poverty around the World: North America PART 3: POLICIES TOWARDS POVERTY 19. The Working Poor 20. Poverty in Old Age 21. Poverty and Access to Welfare Benefits 22. Coping with Poverty - Life for People 23. Poverty and Crime 24. Taxes and Duties and Impact on Poverty 25. Social Cash Transfers in the Global South: Individualizing Poverty Policies 26. International Migration and Poverty 27. Neoliberalism and Poverty: An Unbreakable Relationship 28. Poverty and Health Inequality 29. Poverty Reduction among Older People through Pensions: A Comparative Analysis 30. Behavioural Public Policy and Poverty 31. Poverty and Family PART 4: THE WAY FORWARD - WHAT WILL INFLUENCE POVERTY IN THE YEARS TO COME? 32. Poverty - It Is Still Here