The project involves a study in seven countries (Uganda, India, China, UK, Pakistan, S Korea, Norway and the UK) and engages directly with people with direct experience of poverty through in-depth interviews, and is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and the Department for Development (DFID) in the UK. It examines Amartya Sen’s contention that shame is universally experienced by those living in poverty and explores the hypothesis that shame reduce’s agency and increases social exclusion, undermining economic development. The project will be finalized in the Autumn of 2012. For more information contact Sian Jones sian.jones@eapn.eu and Elaine Chase: elaine.chase@spi.ox.ac.uk
EAPN
The European Anti-Poverty Network
