Measuring Poverty (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, #353)

This impressive research collection discusses the most important contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field of poverty measurement. It analyses what constitutes poverty and associated poverty measures, as well as conceptual and empirical approaches to set poverty lines for both national and international settings. The research collection also discusses national and international income poverty measures, multidimensional poverty indices, and ways to capture poverty dynamics.

Edited by the late Stephan Klasen, formerly Professor of Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany