How to write about poverty [Book Review]

In a review of two books based on India's oft-portrayed poverty, Martha Nussbaum posits on how to write about poverty. The two books she critiques are Katherine Boo's BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS & Siddhartha Deb's THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED. " What should we think about a social environment that creates hope and then so often frustrates it?