Download or read book Poverty, Progress and Development written by Paul-Marc Henry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies of poverty, progress and development in this volume, first published in 1991, by a distinguished international roster of authors and researchers, aim to increase knowledge of the social mechanisms of pauperization, marginalization, and the exclusion of certain categories of society; to bring to light the potential and creative role of socio-cultural, intellectual, ethical, moral and spiritual values in progress and the development process; and to examine the links and contradictions between development and progress in order to propose ways of reducing social inequalities.