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 … Decomposable Poverty Measures', Econometrica, 52 (3), May, 761-66 -- 4. A.B. Atkinson (1970), 'On the Measurement of Poverty …

. Ahluwalia (1976), 'Inequality, Poverty and Development', Journal of Development Economics, 3 (4), December, 307-42 -- 5. Sudhir … Economics, 40 (1), February, 25-52 -- 6. Sudhir Anand and S. M. R. Kanbur (1985), 'Poverty Under the Kuznets Process', Economic …, Welfare and Poverty in a Developing Economy with Application to Sri Lanka', Social Choice and Welfare, 5 (2-3), June, 199 …

: empirical findings / Carlotta Balestra, Romina Boarini and Nicolas Ruiz -- 3. Human development and poverty: theoretical … approaches / Suman Seth and Antonio Villar -- 4. Human development and poverty: empirical findings / Suman Seth and Antonio … Villar -- 5. Multidimensional poverty and material deprivation: theoretical approaches / Satya R. Chakravarty and Nachiketa …

poverty and inequality in these areas. Specific issues covered by these papers include multidimensional poverty, equity … effects of school drop-outs, and the role of transfer programs in reducing Latin American poverty. Additional papers provide …

With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty and … emphasizing some important policy issues, this book offers a view of poverty that will orient research in directions previously … neglected, and help those in charge of implementing poverty reduction policies …