poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and a method of aggregation. Historically, the methods of aggregation were …

This paper, using a new set of social development indices, explores the measurement of social development across Africa …, and how this relates to broader development patterns and measurement. Development practitioners worldwide increasingly …

inherent in defining and measuring the size of urban versus rural populations. We show that differences in the measurement of …

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … functionings. In addition to an introductory and a concluding part, the paper has four sections. The first of these, on measurement … rankings; poverty measures and anti-poverty policy; and other issues in the measurement of poverty. The third section considers …