Poverty alleviation is crucial to any truly sustainable development process and, in fact, is an effective and efficient driver of any such process. In contrast, any development process that does not alleviate poverty tends to accommodate and eventually institutionalize it, effectively making more and more room for the poor as the benefits of economic expansion flow decisively elsewhere. An understanding of the relationship between poverty alleviation and development is of utmost importance to foster sustainable development. In this article, the author draws on resources from Buddhist thought and practice, particularly in identifying the meaning and conditioned origination of poverty.
Author: Peter D. HershockPublished: Select Date 2004
Language(s): English
Content Type(s): Text
Region(s): Global
Link: http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/jbs/pdf/JBS_11_03.pdf