This book offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty … reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty remains stubbornly high in many … parts of the world. This publication argues that the mainstream perspectives on poverty and deprivation have contributed to …

"Much ink has been spilled on poverty measurements and trends, at the expense of revealing causality. Assembling multi …-disciplinary and international contributions, this book shows that a causal understanding of poverty in rich and poor countries is … mechanisms producing poverty as an outcome. Processes that widen/strengthen crisis-ridden market relations, that increase income …

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 …