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 …

This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement. It …

for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare …Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice …

Alleviation Mechanism of NGOs -- Chapter V：The Guangcai Programme and the Transformation of China's Poverty Alleviation -- Chapter …This book explores the mechanisms and significance of China’s private economy participating in poverty alleviation. By … private sector, the book is highly topical, offering readers theoretical insights into China’s poverty alleviation mechanisms …

After over 30 years of reform and opening up, China’s aggregate economic volume is now the second largest in the world …. Over the past decade many provinces in the western region of China have implemented ecological migration projects of … different scales, which have attracted considerable attention both in China and abroad. The projects indicate, first, that there …

This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty … logic and core elements of China's poverty alleviation theory, and taking the Chinese experience of poverty alleviation … refines the "Two Threads One Force" theoretical framework to make a basic judgment of the "China model" for poverty …

Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 1 China’s Miracle in Growth and Poverty Reduction -- Chapter 2 Explaining China … its imbalances from the perspective of analysis and the impact of growth on poverty and inequality. A limited number of …’s Growth Miracle -- Chapter 3 Why China Must Advance Transformation and Improve the Quality of Growth -- Chapter 4 Rising …

This book explores trends of inequality and poverty in China, identifies their causes and assesses their consequences …