This important volume provides the foundation for a shift in policy learning on a global scale and demonstrates the need to take account of the psychological consequences of poverty for policy to be effective.

Resetting the stage ~ Erika K. Gubrium; New urban poverty and new welfare provision: China's Dibao system ~ Ming Yan; Thick poverty, thicker society and thin state: Policy spaces for human dignity in India ~ Sony Pellissery & Leemamol Mathew; Self-sufficiency, social assistance and the shaming of poverty in South Korea ~ Yongmie Nicola Jo & Robert Walker; 'Not good enough': Social assistance and shaming in Norway ~ Erika K. Gubrium & Ivar Lodemel; Pakistan: A journey of poverty-induced shame ~ Sohail Choudhry; Separating the sheep from the goats: Tackling poverty in Britain for over four centuries ~ Robert Walker & Elaine Chase; 'Food That Cannot Be Eaten': The shame of Uganda's anti-poverty policies ~ Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo & Amon Mwiine; Shame and shaming in policy processes ~ Sony Pellissery, Ivar Lodemel & Erika K. Gubrium; Towards global principles for dignity-based anti-poverty policies ~ Erika K. Gubrium & Ivar Lodemel.