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Part I. Different Disciplines, Different Perceptions
1. Multidimensional Poverty: Conceptual and Measurement Issues
2. Measuring Poverty: The Case for a Sociological Approach
David B. Grusky, Kim A. Weeden
3. Poverty Counts: Living with Poverty and Poverty Measures
4. The Multidimensionality of Poverty: An Institutionalist Perspective
5. The Subjective Dimension of Poverty: A Psychological Viewpoint
Part II. On Poverty and Freedom
6. Choosing Dimensions: The Capability Approach and Multidimensional Poverty
7. On the Concept and Measurement of Empowerment
8. Participation, Pluralism and Perceptions of Poverty
9. A Human Rights-Based Approach to Poverty: The South African Experience
Linda Jansen Rensburg
Part III. Extending the Concept of Multidimensional Poverty
10. Identifying and Measuring Chronic Poverty: Beyond Monetary Measures?
David Hulme, Andy McKay
11. Risk and Vulnerability to Poverty
Cesar Calvo, Stefan Dercon
Part IV. Critical Policy Issues
12. On the Political Economy of Poverty Alleviation
Marcelo Côrtes Nerì, Marcelo Casal Xerez
13. On Assessing Pro-Poorness of Government Programmes: International Comparisons
Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son
Keywords: Economics, Development Economics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Poverty, Aid and Development
Ho, Lok Sang