Defining poverty in the developing world
2007
Stewart, Frances | Saith, Ruhi | Harriss-White, Barbara
Despite increasing acceptance that poverty is multidimensional, most policy work adopts a monetary definition. Using data for India and Peru, the authors compare four different approaches to poverty analysis at a theoretical and empirical level. Defining Poverty in the Developing World compares and contrasts monetary, capabilities, social exclusion and participatory approaches in a highly informative manner. The research elucidates the implications for measuring poverty and for policy, concluding that the approach chosen does make a marked difference to conclusions drawn.
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Publisher Palgrave Macmillan | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
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