Many Dimensions of Poverty [electronic resource] /
Kakwani, N.editor.
Silber, J.editor.
With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty and emphasizing some important policy issues, this book offers a view of poverty that will orient research in directions previously neglected, and help those in charge of implementing poverty reduction policies.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Different Disciplines, Different Perceptions; Part II: On Poverty and Freedom; Part III: Extending the Concept of Multidimensional Poverty; Part IV: Critical Policy Issues; Index
Papers originally presented at an international conference in Brasilia on August 29-31, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty and emphasizing some important policy issues, this book offers a view of poverty that will orient research in directions previously neglected, and help those in charge of implementing poverty reduction policies.
Development economics.
Welfare economics.
Macroeconomics.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Poverty.
Development Economics.
Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Development Aid.