Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Buhong Zheng (1993), 'An Axiomatic Characterization of the Watts Poverty Index', Economic Letters, 42 (1), 81-86 -- 2. Amartya Sen (1976), 'Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement', Econometrica, 44 (2), March, 219-31 -- 3. James Foster, Joel Greer and Erik Thorbecke (1984), 'Notes and Comments: A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures', Econometrica, 52 (3), May, 761-66 -- 4. A.B. Atkinson (1970), 'On the Measurement of Poverty', Econometrica, 55 (4), July, 749-64 -- 5. Amartya Sen (1983), 'Poor, Relatively Speaking', Oxford Economic Papers, 35 (2), 153-69 [17] -- 6. Peter Townsend (1985), 'A Sociological Approach to the Measurement of Poverty-A Rejoinder to Professor Amartya Sen', Oxford Economic Papers, 37 (4), December, 659-68 -- 7. Amartya Sen (1985), 'A Sociological Approach to the Measurement of Poverty: A Reply to Peter Townsend', Oxford Economic Papers, 37 (4), December, 669-76 -- 8. Lawrence Haddad and Ravi Kanbur (1990), 'How Serious is the Neglect of Intra-Household Inequality?', Economic Journal, 100 (402), September, 866-81 -- 9. Mollie Orshansky (1965), 'Counting the Poor: Another Look at the Poverty Profile', Social Security Bulletin, 28 (1), January, 3-29 -- 10. Joel Greer and Erik Thorbecke (1986), 'A Methodology for Measuring Food Poverty Applied to Kenya', Journal of Development Economics, 24 (1), November, 59-74 -- 11. Martin Ravallion and Benu Bidani (1994), 'How Robust is a Poverty Profile', World Bank Economic Review, 8 (1), January, 75-102 -- 12. Martin Ravallion and Binayak Sen (1996), 'When Method Matters: Monitoring Poverty in Bangladesh,' Economic Development and Cultural Change, 44 (4), July, 761-92 -- 13. Victor R. Fuchs (1967), 'Redefining Poverty and Redistributing Income', Public Interest, 8, Summer, 88-95 -- 14. Arie Kapetyn, Peter Kooreman and Rob Willemse (1988), 'Some Methodological Issues in the Implementation of Subjective Poverty Definitions', Journal of Human Resources, 23 (2), Spring, 222-42 -- 15. Menno Pradhan and Martin Ravallion (2000), 'Measuring Poverty Using Qualitative Perceptions of Consumption Adequacy', Review of Economics and Statistics, 82 (3), August, 462-71 -- 16. Brigitte Buhmann, Lee Rainwater, Guenther Schmaus and Timothy M. Smeeding (1988), 'Equivalence Scales, Well-being, Inequality and Poverty: Sensitivity Estimates Across Ten Countries Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database', Review of Income and Wealth, 34 (2), 115-42 -- 17. Jean Drèze and P.V. Srinivasan (1997), 'Widowhood and Poverty in Rural India: Some Inferences From Household Survey Data', Journal of Development Economics, 54 (2), December, 217-34 -- 18. Daniel T. Slesnick (1993), 'Gaining Ground: Poverty in the Postwar United States', Journal of Political Economy, 101 (1), February, 1-38 -- 19. Montek S. Ahluwalia, Nicholas G. Carter and Hollis B. Chenery (1979), 'Growth and Poverty in Developing Countries', Journal of Development Economics, 6 (3), 299-341 -- 20. Martin Ravallion, Gaurav Datt and Dominique van de Walle (1991), Quantifying Absolute Poverty in the Developing World', Review of Income and Wealth, 37 (4), December, 345-361.
