Das Konzept der Verwirklichungschancen (Capabilities) des Ökonomienobelpreisträgers Amartya Sen bildet eine neue Grundlage der deutschen Armuts- und Reichtumsberichterstattung. Dieser Sammelband zum Capability-Ansatz diskutiert konzeptionelle Grundlagen sowie mögliche Anwendungen auf Armuts-...

Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms...

"While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years, until recent times the bulk of that progress had been made in wealthy countries only. The good news is that we have seen greater progress against poverty in the developing world in...

An Asian poverty line? Issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- A poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay and Jacques Silber -- Concepts and measurment of vulnerablility to poverty...