The elimination of poverty is the overriding aim of those concerned with development - but poverty is surprisingly difficult to define. Poverty, of course, represents deprivation, but the definition of what is being deprived and by how much - are not agreed. Moreover, despite increasing acceptance of the view that poverty is multidimensional, most policy work adopts a monetary definition. Comparing the monetary approach with three further approaches - capabilities, social exclusion and participatory - and using India and Peru as case studies, this research argues that how poverty is defined and measured makes a substantial difference to conclusions drawn and the implications this has for policymaking.
'The core strength of the volume is the care with which both theoretical and empirical issues are explored...it will have lasting value as a classic in an assessment of the alternative concepts, definitions and measures of poverty.' - Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
Acknowledgements
Introduction; F.Stewart, C.R.Laderchi & R.Saith
The Monetary Approach to Poverty: A Survey of Concepts and Methods; C.R.Laderchi
Capabilities: The Concept and Its Implementation; R.Saith
Social Exclusion: The Concept and Application to Developing Countries; R.Saith
Participatory Methods in the Analysis of Poverty: A Critical Review; C.R.Laderchi
Poverty in India: A Comparison of Different Approaches; R.Saith with A.Sharma
Different Concepts of Poverty; S.Franco
Destitution in India and Peru; B.Harriss-White
Alternative Realities? Different Concepts of Poverty, their Empirical Consequences and Policy Implications: Overview and Conclusions; F.Stewart, R.Saith & B.Harriss-White
Bibliography
Index
FRANCES STEWART is Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, Oxford University, UK. A pre-eminent development economist, she was named one of fifty outstanding technological leaders for 2003 by Scientific American.
RUHI SAITH is qualified as a medical doctor and has a D. Phil in Medicine from Oxford University. Her research interests and experience are in Public Health and multi-dimensional aspects of poverty. She has worked on projects with the UN, UNDP, UNRISD, the World Bank and worked at QEH, Oxford University and the Planning Commission of the Government of India. She is currently the Head of Research Programmes at the Public Health Foundation of India.
BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE is Director of the Department of International Development, Professor of Development Studies and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK. Trained in agricultural and development economics, she has focused on two fields of research in India since 1969: the political economy of agrarian markets and aspects of deprivation.
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The elimination of poverty is the overriding aim of those concerned with development - but poverty is surprisingly difficult to define. Poverty, of course, represents deprivation, but the definition of what is being deprived and by how much - are not agreed. Moreover, despite increasing acceptance of the view that poverty is multidimensional, most policy work adopts a monetary definition. Comparing the monetary approach with three further approaches - capabilities, social exclusion and participatory - and using India and Peru as case studies, this research argues that how poverty is defined and measured makes a substantial difference to conclusions drawn and the implications this has for policymaking.
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'The core strength of the volume is the care with which both theoretical and empirical issues are explored...it will have lasting value as a classic in an assessment of the alternative concepts, definitions and measures of poverty.' - Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction; F.Stewart, C.R.Laderchi & R.Saith
The Monetary Approach to Poverty: A Survey of Concepts and Methods; C.R.Laderchi
Capabilities: The Concept and Its Implementation; R.Saith
Social Exclusion: The Concept and Application to Developing Countries; R.Saith
Participatory Methods in the Analysis of Poverty: A Critical Review; C.R.Laderchi
Poverty in India: A Comparison of Different Approaches; R.Saith with A.Sharma
Different Concepts of Poverty; S.Franco
Destitution in India and Peru; B.Harriss-White
Alternative Realities? Different Concepts of Poverty, their Empirical Consequences and Policy Implications: Overview and Conclusions; F.Stewart, R.Saith & B.Harriss-White
Bibliography
Index
Authors
FRANCES STEWART is Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, Oxford University, UK. A pre-eminent development economist, she was named one of fifty outstanding technological leaders for 2003 by Scientific American.
RUHI SAITH is qualified as a medical doctor and has a D. Phil in Medicine from Oxford University. Her research interests and experience are in Public Health and multi-dimensional aspects of poverty. She has worked on projects with the UN, UNDP, UNRISD, the World Bank and worked at QEH, Oxford University and the Planning Commission of the Government of India. She is currently the Head of Research Programmes at the Public Health Foundation of India.
BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE is Director of the Department of International Development, Professor of Development Studies and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK. Trained in agricultural and development economics, she has focused on two fields of research in India since 1969: the political economy of agrarian markets and aspects of deprivation.
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