The author examines the moral, methodological, and practical problems that arise from poverty measurement. He establishes a methodological framework for analyzi

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

In 2013, the World Bank Group announced two goals that would guideits operations worldwide. First is the eradication of chronic extremepoverty bringing the numb

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far