The new urban poverty

Global, regional and Argentine dynamics during the last two decades

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11651127
AutoresGabriel Kessler (0000-0003-4204-8961), María Mercedes Di Virgilio (0000-0002-5801-0784)
Año2008
Volumen2008
Número95
Páginas31-50
Fecha de publicación2008-10-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCEPAL review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0251-2920 • E-ISSN: 1684-0348
EditorialUnited Nations Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.18356/b9e95300-en
OpenAlexW2276923745
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5

This article analyses the various dimensions of the "new poverty" which emerged during the 1980s and 1990s. It begins with a review of the definitions of the term in Europe, the United States and several Latin American countries. The case of Argentina is then examined, paying close attention to the pauperization of the middle class in that country at several points between the mid-1970s and the crisis of 2001. Structural poverty —an older phenomenon— is used as a point of reference to describe the characteristics of the new impoverishment, the adaptation strategies evolved to address it using cultural and social capital, the erosion of collective social identity and the urban dimension of pauperization. The article concludes with an analysis of the transformations experienced by the new poor since the issue was first examined, as well as the specific challenges it poses for public policy

Basic needs · Capital (architecture · Culture of poverty · Development economics · Dimension (graph theory · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Latin Americans · Middle class · Phenomenon · Political science · Poverty · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Latin American Urban Studies