This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in … that measurement issues related to the way undernourishment and childhood undernutrition is measured might play a …

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 …