translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty …. Collectively these chapters provide a nuanced discussion of key distributive phenomena like the high concentration of income among …

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics … participants derive a variety of benefits from microcredit: It helps them to earn income and consume more, accumulate assets …, invest in children's schooling, and be lifted out of poverty. This is not to say that non-participants have failed to …