Subject(s): Poverty -- Human capital -- Economic Development -- Human Development -- Globalization -- Empowerment as sustainable human development strategy for poverty alleviation -- Collision of old ideas and evolution of new concepts : Culture, economic development and globalization, evolution of a new concept- sustainable human development -- Powerful world order and powerless poor people : Dawn of a new world order, powerless poverty and its poor people -- Empowerment strategy for poverty alleviation : Leap from powerlessness of powerfulness, conceptual blossoming of development as empowerment