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 …

section 1. Conceptual foundations -- section 2. Measurement -- section 3. Some policy explorations -- section 4. New …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …

a household. What detail is lost if we use the household as our main unit of analysis in the Chronic Poverty Research …