The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality—a critically important examination of poverty around the world In this, his fina

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free P

Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading pro

"An overview of the economic development of and policies intended to combat poverty around the world"--Provided by publisher.

This anthology constitutes an important contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on poverty measurement and alleviation. Absolute and relative poverty—bot