Book Review: Indigenous Peoples & Poverty edited by Robyn Eversole, John-Andrew Mcneish and Alberto D. Cimadamore

Abstract

It is often stated that 'development' itself has failed to provide answers to human suffering and disadvantage or to fulfill its broad promise to make poor people better off, eventually. While a number of poverty-reducing strategies and legislations are being formulated and implemented the world over, they have still been unable to achieve the desired results. Poverty is seen not as a problem that confronts the ‘poor’ but as something which is detrimental for the success of democracy or that which could cause social instability and undermine the benefits of economic reform. The ‘new politics of poverty’ is unfortunately not for the sake of the security of the poor but in order that the prosperous maybe secure. One important way of addressing the issue of poverty is to explore and analyze the patterns of poverty and ‘discovering what creates a situation of disadvantage.’ The book Indigenous Peoples & Poverty is about discovering this pattern among the indigenous peoples across the world.